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arXiv:1506.02245 (cs)
[Submitted on 7 Jun 2015]

Title:What May Visualization Processes Optimize?

Authors:Min Chen, Amos Golan
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Abstract:In this paper, we present an abstract model of visualization and inference processes and describe an information-theoretic measure for optimizing such processes. In order to obtain such an abstraction, we first examined six classes of workflows in data analysis and visualization, and identified four levels of typical visualization components, namely disseminative, observational, analytical and model-developmental visualization. We noticed a common phenomenon at different levels of visualization, that is, the transformation of data spaces (referred to as alphabets) usually corresponds to the reduction of maximal entropy along a workflow. Based on this observation, we establish an information-theoretic measure of cost-benefit ratio that may be used as a cost function for optimizing a data visualization process. To demonstrate the validity of this measure, we examined a number of successful visualization processes in the literature, and showed that the information-theoretic measure can mathematically explain the advantages of such processes over possible alternatives.
Comments: 10 pages
Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Information Theory (cs.IT)
Cite as: arXiv:1506.02245 [cs.HC]
  (or arXiv:1506.02245v1 [cs.HC] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1506.02245
Journal reference: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(12):2619-2632, 2016
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2513410

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From: Min Chen [view email]
[v1] Sun, 7 Jun 2015 09:57:58 UTC (1,120 KB)
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