ExploroBOT: Rapid Exploration with Chart Automation

John McAuley, Rohan Goel, Tamara Matthews

2019

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

McAuley J., Goel R. and Matthews T. (2019). ExploroBOT: Rapid Exploration with Chart Automation. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 3: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-354-4, SciTePress, pages 225-232. DOI: 10.5220/0007345202250232

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp19,
author={John McAuley and Rohan Goel and Tamara Matthews},
title={ExploroBOT: Rapid Exploration with Chart Automation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 3: IVAPP},
year={2019},
pages={225-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007345202250232},
isbn={978-989-758-354-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 3: IVAPP
TI - ExploroBOT: Rapid Exploration with Chart Automation
SN - 978-989-758-354-4
AU - McAuley J.
AU - Goel R.
AU - Matthews T.
PY - 2019
SP - 225
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0007345202250232
PB - SciTePress