ExploroBOT: Rapid exploration with chart automation

John McAuley, Rohan Goel, Tamara Matthews

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Abstract

General-purpose visualization tools are used by people with varying degrees of data literacy. Often the user is not a professional analyst or data scientist and uses the tool infrequently, to support an aspect of their job. This can present difficulties as the user's unfamiliarity with visualization practice and infrequent use of the tool can result in long processing time, inaccurate data representations or inappropriate visual encodings. To address this problem, we developed a visual analytics application called exploroBOT. The exploroBOT automatically generates visualizations and the exploration guidance path (an associated network of decision points, mapping nodes where visualizations change). These combined approaches enable users to explore visualizations based on a degree of "interestingness". The user-driven approach draws on the browse/explore metaphor commonly applied in social media applications and is supported by guided navigation. In this paper we describe exploroBOT and present an evaluation of the tool.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVISIGRAPP 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
EditorsAndreas Kerren, Christophe Hurter, Jose Braz
PublisherSciTePress
Pages225-232
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789897583544
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2019 - Part of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 25 Feb 201927 Feb 2019

Publication series

NameVISIGRAPP 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications
Volume3

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2019 - Part of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2019
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period25/02/1927/02/19

Keywords

  • Automatic chart generation
  • Data exploration
  • Intelligent visual interfaces
  • Visual analytics

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