Title
Evaluating the Role of Time in Investigative Analysis of Document Collections
Abstract
Time is a universal and essential aspect of data in any investigative analysis. It helps analysts establish causality, build storylines from evidence, and reject infeasible hypotheses. For this reason, many investigative analysis tools provide visual representations designed for making sense of temporal data. However, the field of visual analytics still needs more evidence explaining how temporal visualization actually aids the analysis process, as well as design recommendations for how to build these visualizations. To fill this gap, we conducted an insight-based qualitative study to investigate the influence of temporal visualization on investigative analysis. We found that visualizing temporal information helped participants externalize chains of events. Another contribution of our work is the lightweight evaluation approach used to collect, visualize, and analyze insight.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TVCG.2012.89
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
data visualisation,recycling,data visualization,data analysis,visual analytics
Data science,Analysis tools,Causality,Data visualization,Computer science,Visualization,Visual analytics,Temporal database,Document handling,Qualitative research
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
11
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.44
21
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bum chul Kwon127816.46
Waqas Javed233411.68
Sohaib Ghani3884.12
Niklas Elmqvist4206598.35
Ji Soo Yi586041.47
David S. Ebert62056232.34