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Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining
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Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining
Ben Shneiderman6 
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Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory,Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and Institute
for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD, USA |
Abstract
The growing use of information visualization tools and data miningalg orithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information
visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving users an overview and insight into the data distributions, while
data mining researchers believe that statistical algorithms and machine learning can be relied on to find the interesting
patterns. This paper discusses two issues that influence design of discovery tools: statistical algorithms vs. visual data
presentation, and hypothesis testing vs. exploratory data analysis. I claim that a combined approach could lead to novel discovery
tools that preserve user control, enable more effective exploration, and promote responsibility.
The full version of this paper is published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Discovery Science, Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 2226
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