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Perer, Adam and Shneiderman, Ben (2008): Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 265-274. Available online

“Although both statistical methods and visualizations have been used by network analysts, exploratory data analysis remains a challenge. We propose that a tight integration of these technologies in an interactive exploratory tool could dramatically speed insight development. To test the power of this integrated approach, we created a novel social network analysis tool, SocialAction, and conducted four long-term case studies with domain experts, each working on unique data sets with unique problems. The structured replicated case studies show that the integrated approach in SocialAction led to significant discoveries by a political analyst, a bibliometrician, a healthcare consultant, and a counter-terrorism researcher. Our contributions demonstrate that the tight integration of statistics and visualizations improves exploratory data analysis, and that our evaluation methodology for long-term case studies captures the research strategies of data analysts.”

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Bertini, Enrico, Perer, Adam, Plaisant, Catherine and Santucci, Giuseppe (2008): BELIV'08: Beyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 3913-3916. Available online

“Information visualization systems allow users to produce insights, innovations and discoveries. Evaluating such tools is a challenging task and the goal of BELIV'08 is to make a step ahead in the comprehension of such a complex activity. Current evaluation methods exhibit noticeable limitations and researchers in the area experiment some frustration with evaluation processes that are time consuming and too often leading to unsatisfactory results. The most used evaluation metrics such as task time completion and number of errors appear insufficient to quantify the quality of an information visualization system; thus the name of the workshop: "beyond time and errors".”

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Perer, Adam and Shneiderman, Ben (2008): Systematic yet flexible discovery: guiding domain experts through exploratory data analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2008. pp. 109-118. Available online

“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.”

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Perer, Adam, Shneiderman, Ben and Oard, Douglas W. (2006): Using rhythms of relationships to understand e-mail archives. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (14) pp. 1936-1948

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Perer, Adam and Smith, Marc A. (2006): Contrasting portraits of email practices: visual approaches to reflection and analysis. In: Celentano, Augusto (ed.) AVI 2006 - Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp. 389-395. Available online

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Bier, Eric A. and Perer, Adam (2005): Icon abacus: positional display of document attributes. In: JCDL05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005. pp. 289-290. Available online

“This paper presents icon abacus, a space-efficient technique for displaying document attributes by automatic positioning of document icons. It displays the value of an attribute by using position on a single axis, allowing the other axis to display different metadata simultaneously The layout is stable enough to support navigation using spatial memory.”

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Bier, Eric A. and Perer, Adam (2005): Icon abacus and ghost icons. In: JCDL05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005. p. 404. Available online

“We present two techniques that make document collection visualizations more informative. Icon abacus uses the horizontal position of icon groups to communicate document attributes. Ghost icons show linked documents by adding temporary icons and by highlighting or dimming existing ones.”

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Publication period:2005-2008
Publication count:7
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Adam Perer's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

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Catherine Plaisant:67
Douglas W. Oard:23

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