Visual Data Mining : theory, techniques and tools for visual analytics /

The importance of visual data mining, as a strong sub-discipline of data mining, had already been recognized in the beginning of the decade. In 2005 a panel of renowned individuals met to address the shortcomings and drawbacks of the current state of visual information processing. The need for a systematic and methodological development of visual analytics was detected. This book aims at addressing this need. Through a collection of 21 contributions selected from more than 46 submissions, it offers a systematic presentation of the state of the art in the field. The volume is structured in three parts on theory and methodologies, techniques, and tools and applications.Visual Data Mining: An Introduction and Overview -- Visual Data Mining: An Introduction and Overview -- 1 – Theory and Methodologies -- The 3DVDM Approach: A Case Study with Clickstream Data -- Form-Semantics-Function – A Framework for Designing Visual Data Representations for Visual Data Mining -- A Methodology for Exploring Association Models -- Visual Exploration of Frequent Itemsets and Association Rules -- Visual Analytics: Scope and Challenges -- 2 – Techniques -- Using Nested Surfaces for Visual Detection of Structures in Databases -- Visual Mining of Association Rules -- Interactive Decision Tree Construction for Interval and Taxonomical Data -- Visual Methods for Examining SVM Classifiers -- Text Visualization for Visual Text Analytics -- Visual Discovery of Network Patterns of Interaction between Attributes -- Mining Patterns for Visual Interpretation in a Multiple-Views Environment -- Using 2D Hierarchical Heavy Hitters to Investigate Binary Relationships -- Complementing Visual Data Mining with the Sound Dimension: Sonification of Time Dependent Data -- Context Visualization for Visual Data Mining -- Assisting Human Cognition in Visual Data Mining -- 3 – Tools and Applications -- Immersive Visual Data Mining: The 3DVDM Approach -- DataJewel: Integrating Visualization with Temporal Data Mining -- A Visual Data Mining Environment -- Integrative Visual Data Mining of Biomedical Data: Investigating Cases in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia -- Towards Effective Visual Data Mining with Cooperative Approaches.The importance of visual data mining, as a strong sub-discipline of data mining, had already been recognized in the beginning of the decade. In 2005 a panel of renowned individuals met to address the shortcomings and drawbacks of the current state of visual information processing. The need for a systematic and methodological development of visual analytics was detected. This book aims at addressing this need. Through a collection of 21 contributions selected from more than 46 submissions, it offers a systematic presentation of the state of the art in the field. The volume is structured in three parts on theory and methodologies, techniques, and tools and applications