Title
Visualization by Demonstration: An Interaction Paradigm for Visual Data Exploration.
Abstract
Although data visualization tools continue to improve, during the data exploration process many of them require users to manually specify visualization techniques, mappings, and parameters. In response, we present the Visualization by Demonstration paradigm, a novel interaction method for visual data exploration. A system which adopts this paradigm allows users to provide visual demonstrations of incremental changes to the visual representation. The system then recommends potential transformations (Visual Representation, Data Mapping, Axes, and View Specification transformations) from the given demonstrations. The user and the system continue to collaborate, incrementally producing more demonstrations and refining the transformations, until the most effective possible visualization is created. As a proof of concept, we present VisExemplar, a mixed-initiative prototype that allows users to explore their data by recommending appropriate transformations in response to the given demonstrations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TVCG.2016.2598839
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Data visualization,Visualization,Encoding,Bars,Image color analysis,Spatial databases,Automobiles
Computer vision,Data visualization,Starlight Information Visualization System,Information visualization,Data mapping,Computer science,Visualization,Visual analytics,Interactive visual analysis,Artificial intelligence,Creative visualization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
1
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.58
24
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bahador Saket114011.70
Hannah Kim21036.77
Eli T. Brown31157.05
Alex Endert497452.18