Paper Info
Title
Mail explorer - spatial and temporal exploration of electronic mail
Abstract
In today's world, e-mail has become one of the most important means of communication in business and private lives due to its efficiency. However, the problems start as soon as mail volumes go beyond the scope of human information processing capabilities. Firstly, time does not allow for leaving certain messages unanswered for a long time, and in certain cases, for reading all messages. Secondly, the dilemma of electronic filters leaves a choice of too many junk mails getting through versus a risk of solicited mails being dumped. In this paper we present a new interactive visual data mining approach for analyzing individual e-mail communication. It combines classical visual analytics (help to identify pattern such as peaks and trends over time) with geo-spatial map distortions (help to understand the routes of e-mails). Experiments show that our visual e-mail explorer produces useful and interesting visualizations of large collections of e-mail and is practical for exploring temporal and geo-spatial patterns hidden in the e-mail data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis05/247-254
EuroVis
Keywords
Field
DocType
certain case,visual e-mail,long time,classical visual analytics,individual e-mail communication,new interactive visual data,e-mail data,electronic mail,geo-spatial map distortion,geo-spatial pattern,temporal exploration,certain message,mail explorer
World Wide Web,Information processing,Computer science,Visual analytics,Dilemma,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-905673-19-3
4
0.53
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel A. Keim177041141.60
Florian Mansmann258935.91
Christian Panse324421.75
Jörn Schneidewind414813.89
Mike Sips538125.43