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Title: The Human is the Loop: New Directions for Visual Analytics

Abstract

Visual analytics is the science of marrying interactive visualizations and analytic algorithms to support exploratory knowledge discovery in large datasets. We argue for a shift from a ‘human in the loop’ philosophy for visual analytics to a ‘human is the loop’ viewpoint, where the focus is on recognizing analysts’ work processes, and seamlessly fitting analytics into that existing interactive process. We survey a range of projects that provide visual analytic support contextually in the sensemaking loop, and outline a research agenda along with future challenges.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1176829
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-91912
400470000
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 43(3):411-435
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 43(3):411-435
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
visual analytics; semantic interaction; data mining; information retrieval

Citation Formats

Endert, Alexander, Hossain, Shahriar H., Ramakrishnan, Naren, North, Chris, Fiaux, Patrick, and Andrews, Christopher. The Human is the Loop: New Directions for Visual Analytics. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1007/s10844-014-0304-9.
Endert, Alexander, Hossain, Shahriar H., Ramakrishnan, Naren, North, Chris, Fiaux, Patrick, & Andrews, Christopher. The Human is the Loop: New Directions for Visual Analytics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-014-0304-9
Endert, Alexander, Hossain, Shahriar H., Ramakrishnan, Naren, North, Chris, Fiaux, Patrick, and Andrews, Christopher. 2014. "The Human is the Loop: New Directions for Visual Analytics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-014-0304-9.
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title = {The Human is the Loop: New Directions for Visual Analytics},
author = {Endert, Alexander and Hossain, Shahriar H. and Ramakrishnan, Naren and North, Chris and Fiaux, Patrick and Andrews, Christopher},
abstractNote = {Visual analytics is the science of marrying interactive visualizations and analytic algorithms to support exploratory knowledge discovery in large datasets. We argue for a shift from a ‘human in the loop’ philosophy for visual analytics to a ‘human is the loop’ viewpoint, where the focus is on recognizing analysts’ work processes, and seamlessly fitting analytics into that existing interactive process. We survey a range of projects that provide visual analytic support contextually in the sensemaking loop, and outline a research agenda along with future challenges.},
doi = {10.1007/s10844-014-0304-9},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1176829}, journal = {Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 43(3):411-435},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}