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Designing for Social Data Analysis

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Martin Wattenberg,

Jesse KrissAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Issue 4

Pages 549 - 557

https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.65

Published: 01 July 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The NameVoyager, a Web-based visualization of historical trends in baby naming, has proven remarkably popular. We describe design decisions behind the application and lessons learned in creating an application that makes do-it-yourself data mining popular. The prime lesson, it is hypothesized, is that an information visualization tool may be fruitfully viewed not as a tool but as part of an online social environment. In other words, to design a successful exploratory data analysis tool, one good strategy is to create a system that enables "social” data analysis. We end by discussing the design of an extension of the NameVoyager to a more complex data set, in which the principles of social data analysis played a guiding role.

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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Volume 12, Issue 4

July 2006

239 pages

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