ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics
Amongst the data mining techniques for exploratory analysis, association rule mining is a popular strategy given its ability to find causal rules between items to express regularities in a database. With large datasets, many rules can be generated, and visualization has shown to be instrumental in s...
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| description | Amongst the data mining techniques for exploratory analysis, association rule mining is a popular strategy given its ability to find causal rules between items to express regularities in a database. With large datasets, many rules can be generated, and visualization has shown to be instrumental in such scenarios. Despite the relative success, existing visual representations are limited and suffer from analytical capability and low interactive support issues. This paper presents ARMatrix, a visual analytics framework for the analysis of association rules based on an interactive item-to-rule matrix metaphor which aims to help users to navigate sets of rules and get insights about co-occurrence patterns. The usability of the proposed framework is illustrated using two user scenarios and then confirmed from the feedback received through a user test with 20 participants. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3adf5da7a8bb4ab1bd5d04ffb173b4b12023-11-23T08:02:15ZengMDPI AGElectronics2079-92922022-04-01119134410.3390/electronics11091344ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual AnalyticsRakshit Varu0Leonardo Christino1Fernando V. Paulovich2Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, CanadaAmongst the data mining techniques for exploratory analysis, association rule mining is a popular strategy given its ability to find causal rules between items to express regularities in a database. With large datasets, many rules can be generated, and visualization has shown to be instrumental in such scenarios. Despite the relative success, existing visual representations are limited and suffer from analytical capability and low interactive support issues. This paper presents ARMatrix, a visual analytics framework for the analysis of association rules based on an interactive item-to-rule matrix metaphor which aims to help users to navigate sets of rules and get insights about co-occurrence patterns. The usability of the proposed framework is illustrated using two user scenarios and then confirmed from the feedback received through a user test with 20 participants.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1344visual analyticsassociation rulesmatrix-based visualization |
| spellingShingle | Rakshit Varu Leonardo Christino Fernando V. Paulovich ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics Electronics visual analytics association rules matrix-based visualization |
| title | ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics |
| title_full | ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics |
| title_fullStr | ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics |
| title_full_unstemmed | ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics |
| title_short | ARMatrix: An Interactive Item-to-Rule Matrix for Association Rules Visual Analytics |
| title_sort | armatrix an interactive item to rule matrix for association rules visual analytics |
| topic | visual analytics association rules matrix-based visualization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1344 |
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