Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens
| Title | Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | Lee B, Kang H, Plaisant C, Bederson BB |
| Conference Name | Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on |
| Date Published | 2006/06// |
| Keywords | data, interface, libraries;query, management, model;data, models;data, NetLens;content-actor, network, pair, processing;user, query, refinement;data, retrieval;iterative, systems;, visualisation;digital, visualization;information |
| Abstract | Networks have remained a challenge for information retrieval and visualization because of the rich set of tasks that users want to accomplish. This paper demonstrates a tool, NetLens, to explore a content-actor paired network data model. The NetLens interface was designed to allow users to pose a series of elementary queries and iteratively refine visual overviews and sorted lists. This enables the support of complex queries that are traditionally hard to specify in node-link visualizations. NetLens is general and scalable in that it applies to any dataset that can be represented with our abstract content-actor data model |
| DOI | 10.1145/1141753.1141868 |