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Visual Data Mining

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

Synonyms

Immersive data mining; VDM; Visual analysis; Visual data analysis; Visual discovery

Definition

Visual data mining (VDM) is the process of interaction and analytical reasoning with one or more visual representations of abstract data. The process may lead to the visual discovery of robust patterns in these data or provide some guidance for the application of other data mining and analytics techniques. It facilitates analysts in obtaining deeper understanding of the underlying structures in a data set. The process relies on the tight interconnectedness of tasks, selection of visual representations, the corresponding set of interactive manipulations, and respective analytical techniques. Discovered patterns form the information and knowledge utilized in decision making.

Historical Background

Visual exploration of large data sets had been used as a complementary technique to data mining in order to obtain additional information about the data set. Since the early 1990s there has...

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  1. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Simeon J. Simoff

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Daniel A. Keim

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Simoff, S.J. (2018). Visual Data Mining. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1121

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