Towards the development of environments for designing visualisation support for visual data mining.

Abstract

The design of consistent information visualisation models is a key component in the development of visual data mining methods. However, it is a challenging activity to find the methods, techniques and corresponding tools that are suitable for specific visual mining task, or a particular type of data. The comparison of visualisation techniques across different designs is not a trivial problem. This paper discusses the issues connected with the development of consistent approach to formal development, evaluation and comparison of visualisation methods. Proposed formal approach is illustrated with examples of development of a visualisation model for data from the area of team collaboration in virtual environments and evaluation of visualisation schemes for the results of text analysis. The papers concludes with the discussion of the limitations of the proposed approach and future directions of the research and development of proposed approach.