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SemanticAxis: exploring multi-attribute data by semantic construction and ranking analysis

Authors: Zeyu Li, Changhong Zhang, Yi Zhang, Jiawan Zhang

Published in: Journal of Visualization | Issue 5/2021

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Mining the distribution of features and sorting items by combined attributes are 2 common tasks in exploring and understanding multi-attribute (or multivariate) data. Up to now, few have pointed out the possibility of merging these 2 tasks into a united exploration context and the potential benefits of doing so. In this paper, we present SemanticAxis, a technique that achieves this goal by enabling analysts to build a semantic vector in two-dimensional space interactively. Essentially, the semantic vector is a linear combination of the original attributes. It can be used to represent and explain abstract concepts implied in local (outliers, clusters) or global (general pattern) features of reduced space, as well as serving as a ranking metric for its defined concepts. In order to validate the significance of combining the above 2 tasks in multi-attribute data analysis, we design and implement a visual analysis system, in which several interactive components cooperate with SemanticAxis seamlessly and expand its capacity to handle complex scenarios. We prove the effectiveness of our system and the SemanticAxis technique via 2 practical cases.

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Title: SemanticAxis: exploring multi-attribute data by semantic construction and ranking analysis
Authors: Zeyu Li
Changhong Zhang
Yi Zhang
Jiawan Zhang
Publication date: 10-03-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Visualization / Issue 5/2021
Print ISSN: 1343-8875
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-020-00733-z

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