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Visual Data Mining

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Synonyms

Visual data analysis; Visual analysis; Visual discovery; Immersive data mining; VDM

Definition

Visual data mining (VDM) is the process of interaction and analytical reasoning with one or more visual representations of abstract data. The process may lead to the visual discovery of robust patterns in these data or provide some guidance for the application of other data mining and analytics techniques. It facilitates analysts in obtaining deeper understanding of the underlying structures in a data set. The process relies on the tight interconnectedness of tasks, selection of visual representations, the corresponding set of interactive manipulations, and respective analytical techniques. Discovered patterns form the information and knowledge utilized in decision making.

Historical Background

Visual exploration of large data sets had been used as a complementary technique to data mining in order to obtain additional information about the data set. Since the early 1990s there has...

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  1. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Simeon J. Simoff

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Simoff, S.J. (2009). Visual Data Mining. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1121

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