Interactive visualization techniques allow dataexploration to be a continuous process, rather than a discrete sequence of queries and results as in traditional database systems. However limitations in expressive powe...
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Interactive visualization techniques allow dataexploration to be a continuous process, rather than a discrete sequence of queries and results as in traditional database systems. However limitations in expressive power of current visualization systems force users to go outside the system and form a new dataset in order to perform certain operations, such as those involving the relationship among multiple objects. Further, there is no support for integrating data from the new dataset into previous visualizations, so users must recreate them. Visage's information centric paradigm provides an architectural hook for linking data across multiple queries, removing this overhead. This paper describes the addition to Visage of a visual query language, called VQE, which allows users to express more complicated queries than in previous interactive visualization systems. visualizations can be created from queries and vice versa. When either is updated, the other changes to maintain consistency.
data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) promise to play an important role in the way people interact with databases, especially scientific databases where analysis and exploration operations are essenti...
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data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) promise to play an important role in the way people interact with databases, especially scientific databases where analysis and exploration operations are essential. The author defines the basic notions in data mining and KDD, defines the goals, presents motivation, and gives a high-level definition of the KDD process and how it relates to data mining. The author then focuses on data mining methods. Basic coverage of a sampling of methods is provided to illustrate the methods and how they are used. The author covers a case study of a successful application in science dataanalysis: the classification of cataloging of a major astronomy sky survey covering 2 billion objects in the northern sky. The system can outperform human as well as classical computational analysis tools in astronomy on the task of recognizing faint stars and galaxies. The author also covers the problem of scaling a clustering problem to a large catalog database of billions of objects.
The AUSTRALIS (AMS for Ultra Sensitive TRAce eLement and Isotopic Studies) system being developed at the HIAF laboratory is a microbeam AMS system designed for in-situ micro-analysis of geological samples for ultra-tr...
The AUSTRALIS (AMS for Ultra Sensitive TRAce eLement and Isotopic Studies) system being developed at the HIAF laboratory is a microbeam AMS system designed for in-situ micro-analysis of geological samples for ultra-trace and isotopic data. This enables analysis of microscopic geological samples or micro-features of minerals. AMS has only minor mass interference problems and together with the high sensitivity of AMS, AUSTRALIS opens the way for many interesting applications. AUSTRALIS is based on a standard AMS design and enhanced by some unique design features. The primary ion beam gun (modified HICONEX source) produces a microbeam of Cs+ as small as 30 microns in diameter. The sample chamber features an efficient sample viewing system with viewing angle normal to the sample, that enables live observation of the sputtering process and visual tuning of the microbeam. In order to achieve the high precision required for isotopic ratios in geochronological applications of AMS, a fast isotope switching system has been implemented.
STARLIGHT is an example of a new class of information system expressly designed around visualization-oriented user-interface. Incorporating more traditional information storage and retrieval technologies into its desi...
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STARLIGHT is an example of a new class of information system expressly designed around visualization-oriented user-interface. Incorporating more traditional information storage and retrieval technologies into its design, the STARLIGHT system also enables the integrated use of multiple, concurrent visualization techniques to support comparison of content and interrelationship information levels of abstraction simultaneously. This powerful new form of information analysis eases cognitive workloads by providing a visual context for the information under study. Originally developed for intelligence analysis applications, the STARLIGHT software is intended to support the rapid, concurrent analysis of complex multimedia information, including structured and unstructured text, geographic information, and digital imagery. The system uses novel 3-D visualization techniques that interactively generate easily understandable representations of explicit and implicit relationships contained in information collections of various types. This paper describes the general theory behind our approach, and the design and features of a Windows NT-based operational system.
Describes dataexploration techniques designed to classify DNA sequences. Several visualization and data mining techniques were used to validate and attempt to discover new methods for distinguishing coding DNA sequen...
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Describes dataexploration techniques designed to classify DNA sequences. Several visualization and data mining techniques were used to validate and attempt to discover new methods for distinguishing coding DNA sequences (exons) from non-coding DNA sequences (introns). The goal of the data mining was to see whether some other, possibly non-linear combination of the fundamental position-dependent DNA nucleotide frequency values could be a better predictor than the AMI (average mutual information). We tried many different classification techniques including rule-based classifiers and neural networks. We also used visualization of both the original data and the results of the data mining to help verify patterns and to understand the distinction between the different types of data and classifications. In particular, the visualization helped us develop refinements to neural network classifiers, which have accuracies as high as any known method. Finally, we discuss the interactions between visualization and data mining and suggest an integrated approach.
In modern object-oriented computer systems the internal state of the entire system consists of the internal states of many objects, probably distributed over a heterogeneous network of computers. The man machine inter...
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(纸本)0819420301
In modern object-oriented computer systems the internal state of the entire system consists of the internal states of many objects, probably distributed over a heterogeneous network of computers. The man machine interaction in such an application is based on the visualization of states on one hand and the modification of states in combination with event generation on the other hand. This paper describes concept and realization of a reusable service for general man machine communication.
This paper reviews the results of multidimensional image analysis and visualization studies using n-dimensional Probability Density Functions (nPDF) algorithm. The nPDF technique is an approach to the visualization an...
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(纸本)0819420301
This paper reviews the results of multidimensional image analysis and visualization studies using n-dimensional Probability Density Functions (nPDF) algorithm. The nPDF technique is an approach to the visualization and analysis of multispectral data and overcomes many of the problems inherent to traditional classifiers that rely on purely statistical approaches to describe data and class (or training field) distribution. A graphical method, in conjunction with statistical techniques, has the advantage of providing a multidimensional data distribution and may be used for supervised and unsupervised classifications. The approach is particularly useful for comparing training data with the spectral classes present in the entire data set. Compared to the conventional statistical classifiers, the nPDF procedure is extremely fast and user-interactive. The approach relies on datavisualization techniques and displays data and class distribution graphically. In this paper, a review of the theory and applications of the technique are given. The data processing procedure for supervised and unsupervised classifications using the interactive nPDF method and comparison of the nPDF technique with the traditional algorithms are also discussed.
This paper describes a semi-automated building assessment method (SABAM) for estimating building edges with sub-pixel accuracy. The semi-automated approach is based on an earlier manual point method which determined b...
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(纸本)0819420301
This paper describes a semi-automated building assessment method (SABAM) for estimating building edges with sub-pixel accuracy. The semi-automated approach is based on an earlier manual point method which determined building height using shadow length analysis. The manual method was then semi-automated using a sub-pixel edge detection algorithm to obtain more precise building edges and reduce human interpretation. Edge locations have been evaluated to within 1/100th of a pixel using gradient descent.
The X Public Access (XPA) mechanism allows an Xt program to define named public access points through which data and commands can be exchanged with other programs. We will discuss our design goals for XPA, the technic...
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(纸本)0819420301
The X Public Access (XPA) mechanism allows an Xt program to define named public access points through which data and commands can be exchanged with other programs. We will discuss our design goals for XPA, the technical challenges we faced--including extensions to the Xt selection implementation--and the user interface and application programming interface that we developed to meet these challenges. We also will describe our application of XPA to a new version of the popular SAOimage astronomical image display program. XPA makes possible external control of the program's main function, including image display, image zoom and pan, colormap manipulation, cursor/region definition, and frame selection. It also supports `public access' to internal algorithms such as image file access and scaling. Finally, we will describe how XPA is used to support user-configurable analysis of image data and bi- directional communication with other processes.
Regional difference of the society creates movement of people across regions. Conventionally, an interregional migration data set is stored as an origin-destination (O-D) matrix, which has one row for each flow origin...
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(纸本)0819420301
Regional difference of the society creates movement of people across regions. Conventionally, an interregional migration data set is stored as an origin-destination (O-D) matrix, which has one row for each flow origin and one column for each destination. For example, interregional migration data within fifty states of United States generates a 50 by 50 O-D matrix, and an O- D matrix for county to county migration would have more than 3100 rows and columns. Studying these complex migration flow systems has always been challenging to scientists. This paper reports a methodology that combines scientific visualization, exploratory dataanalysis, dynamic graphics and projection pursuit methods to explore these migration flow systems. First, a complex migration flow data set is simplified by using a projection pursuit method. These less complex data are then represented in four graphic views: a migration flow view showing direction and magnitude of migration, a choropleth view showing characteristics of O-D regions, a statistical view of flow variables, and a statistical view of O-D attribute variables. These four views are linked by using a dynamic brushing technique, which enables the researcher to explore the relationships between the four views. These relationships can then be used as the basis for understanding the migration flow system.
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