Paper Info
Title
Annotating BI visualization dashboards: needs & challenges
Abstract
Annotations have been identified as an important aid in analysis record-keeping and recently data discovery. In this paper we discuss the use of annotations on visualization dashboards, with a special focus on business intelligence (BI) analysis. In-depth interviews with experts lead to new annotation needs for multi-chart visualization systems, on which we based the design of a dashboard prototype that supports data and context aware annotations. We focus particularly on novel annotation aspects, such as multi-target annotations, annotation transparency across charts and data dimension levels, as well as annotation properties such as lifetime and validity. Moreover, our prototype is built on a data layer shared among different data-sources and BI applications, allowing cross application annotations. We discuss challenges in supporting context aware annotations in dashboards and other visualizations, such as dealing with changing annotated data, and provide design solutions. Finally we report reactions and recommendations from a different set of expert users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2207676.2208288
human factors in computing systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-target annotation,new annotation need,annotation property,annotating bi visualization dashboard,cross application annotation,data dimension level,annotated data,data discovery,context aware annotation,annotation transparency,data layer,business intelligence,annotation,visual system,difference set
Data discovery,Transparency (graphic),World Wide Web,Annotation,Visualization,Computer science,Data access layer,Dashboard (business),Business intelligence
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.56
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Micheline Elias1342.20
Anastasia Bezerianos267437.75