Evaluating the use of data transformation for information visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1309-1316

  Wen, Zhen ^a   Zhou, Michelle X ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data cleaning; Data transformation; Empirical evaluation; User studies

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC; DATA CLEANING; DATA TRANSFORMATION; DATA TRANSFORMATIONS; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATING; EXPERIMENT STUDIES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATIONS; INTERACTION CONTEXTS; RAW DATUM; TASK PERFORMANCES; USER PERFORMANCES; USER STUDIES; VISUALIZATION QUALITIES;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 54949115908     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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