this kind of reading can be applied to different
domains, for example, laws, standards and manuals.
5 CONCLUSIONS
This paper presented the use of tree-map visualization
combined with the functions search, edition, data
regrouping, and hyperlink navigation as a practical
solution for data analysis.The use of these functions in
a coordinated way facilitates the interaction of the user
with the tool, enhancing the human cognition capacity.
This proposal was derived from the need of
analyzing a large amount of data, but this analysis
would be easier in case all the data were visualized at
the same time. Thus, aiming to take advantage of the
full screen, the tree-map visualization has been chosen.
Besides, the data (a set of questions) must be corrected
(ie, edited), triggering immediate regrouping in the
visual metaphor. The aim was grouping the data as
much as possible. In addition, to identify which data
must be corrected, the search option should also be
available. Hence, this initial proposal – tree-map,
search, edition and data regrouping – was implemented
in the tool named SeEd-Visual, which has been the
basis to solve similar problems.
After this first problem, it was needed to establish a
practical way to handle the large document of the
TMMi reference model. It was necessary to read the
description of its practices with the aim of deciding if
there was any dependency among the ones that were
related to a specific issue. Again, a whole overview of
the document structure requires the tree-map
visualization. The search function solves the problem
of identifying which practices should be read. But the
reading still requires the access of the TMMi practice
full text. Then, the hyperlink function was added to the
SeEd-Visual, allowing a structured reading,
simultaneously, fragments of this large document.
In summary, the tree-map technique was a good
choice to provide a view of the whole data and the
functions search, edit, regrouping and hyperlink made
the interaction between the user and the visualization
easier. As further work, the SeEd-Visual will be used
as the basis for the development of a free tool that can
be used in the context of qualitative analysis to support
the coding technique application.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank the Brazilian funding
agencies CNPq, CAPES and FAPESP, the INEP
institute, the Observatório da Educação project and
INCT-SEC (National Institute of Science and
Technology - Critical Embedded Systems - Brazil),
processes 573963/2008-9 and 08/57870-9.
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