CViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Rule Induction

  • Authors:
  • Jianchao Han;Aijun An;Nick Cercone

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AI '00 Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society on Computational Studies of Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We introduce an interactive visualization system, CViz, for rule induction. The process of learning classification rules is visualized, which consists of five components: preparing and visualizing the original data, cleaning the original data, discretizing numerical attributes, learning classification rules, and visualizing the discovered rules. The CViz system is presented and each component is discussed. Three approaches for discretizing numerical attributes, including equal-length, equal-depth, and entropy-based approaches, are provided. The algorithm ELEM2 for learning classification rules is introduced, and the approaches to visualizing discretized data and classification rules are proposed. CViz could be easily adapted to visualize the rule induction process of other rule-based learning systems. Our experimental results on the IRIS data, Monks data, and artificial data show that the CViz system is useful and helpful for visualizing and understanding the learning process of classification rules.