What May Visualization Processes Optimize?

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 22; no. 12; pp. 2619 - 2632
• Main Authors: Min Chen, Golan, Amos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.12.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Analytical models; Cost benefit analysis; cost-benefit ratio; Data analysis; Data models; Data visualization; entropy; Information theory; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; model of visualization; Object oriented modeling; Optimization; pipeline; Pipelines; process optimization; Scientific visualization; theory of visualization; Transformations; Visual analytics; Visualization; Workflow

In this paper, we present an abstract model of visualization and inference processes, and describe an information-theoretic measure for optimizing such processes. In order to obtain such an abstraction, we first examined six classes of workflows in data analysis and visualization, and identified fou...