TY - CONF T1 - Systematic yet flexible discovery: guiding domain experts through exploratory data analysis T2 - Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces Y1 - 2008 A1 - Perer,Adam A1 - Shneiderman, Ben KW - exploratory data analysis KW - guides KW - Information Visualization KW - social networks KW - systematic yet flexible KW - wizards AB - During exploratory data analysis, visualizations are often useful for making sense of complex data sets. However, as data sets increase in size and complexity, static information visualizations decrease in comprehensibility. Interactive techniques can yield valuable discoveries, but current data analysis tools typically support only opportunistic exploration that may be inefficient and incomplete. We present a refined architecture that uses systematic yet flexible (SYF) design goals to guide domain expert users through complex exploration of data over days, weeks and months. The SYF system aims to support exploratory data analysis with some of the simplicity of an e-commerce check-out while providing added flexibility to pursue insights. The SYF system provides an overview of the analysis process, suggests unexplored states, allows users to annotate useful states, supports collaboration, and enables reuse of successful strategies. The affordances of the SYF system are demonstrated by integrating it into a social network analysis tool employed by social scientists and intelligence analysts. The SYF system is a tool-independent component and can be incorporated into other data analysis tools. JA - Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces T3 - IUI '08 PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA SN - 978-1-59593-987-6 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378773.1378788 M3 - 10.1145/1378773.1378788 ER -