Representing Multidimensional Cancer Registry Data

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Bieh-Zimmert;Claudia Koschtial;Carsten Felden

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Silbermannstr. 2/2.11, 09599 Freiberg;TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Silbermannstr. 2/2.11, 09599 Freiberg;TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Silbermannstr. 2/2.11, 09599 Freiberg

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Epidemiology requires the analysis and visualization of massive data sets. The field of cancer statistics in particular is facing the challenging task of visualizing a large data set that contains a wide range of available dimensions. The existing work of epidemiologists has been time-consuming because of visualization techniques that could not be scaled to support an unguided exploration process. This limitation has led to the inefficient use of data representations that are mainly used for detailed analysis. Our goal was to find a scalable visualization technique that focused on covering a wide range of categorical information. For this purpose, a task by data type taxonomy is used to analyze the existing data visualization techniques. The chosen representation was based on the implemented flow visualization and provided an overview for exploring the data by epidemiologists. In this way, a more scalable visualization delivered the ability to support the creation of hypotheses by finding relationships of interest.