6. Design of BBS with Visual Representation for Online Data Analysis
Yasufumi Takama10
and Yuta Seo10
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Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan |
Summary
A concept of bulletin board system (BBS) equipped with information visualization techniques is proposed for supporting online
data analysis. Although a group discussion is known to be effective for analyzing data from various viewpoints, the number
of participants has to be limited in terms of time and space constraints. To solve the problem, this paper proposes to augment
BBS, which is one of popular tools on the Web. In order for discussion participants to share the data online, the system provides
them with a visual representation of target data, with functions for supporting comment generation as well as retrieving posted
comments. In order to show the potential of the concept, a BBS equipped with KeyGraph is also developed for supporting online
chance discovery. It has functions for making visual annotations on the KeyGraph, as well as a function for retrieving similar
scenarios. The experimental result shows the effectiveness of the BBS in terms of the usefulness of scenario generation support
functions as well as that of scenario retrieval engines.
Keywords Bulletin board system (BBS) - online data analysis - information visualization - chance discovery - scenario generation