From information to choice: A critical inquiry into visualization tools for decision making

E Oral, R Chawla, M Wijkstra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the face of complex decisions, people often engage in a three-stage process that spans
from (1) exploring and analyzing pertinent information (intelligence);(2) generating and …

VA+ Embeddings STAR: A State‐of‐the‐Art Report on the Use of Embeddings in Visual Analytics

Z Huang, D Witschard, K Kucher… - Computer Graphics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past years, an increasing number of publications in information visualization,
especially within the field of visual analytics, have mentioned the term “embedding” when …

An empirical analysis of diversity in argument summarization

M Van Der Meer, P Vossen, CM Jonker… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Presenting high-level arguments is a crucial task for fostering participation in online societal
discussions. Current argument summarization approaches miss an important facet of this …

An interdisciplinary perspective on evaluation and experimental design for visual text analytics: Position paper

K Kucher, N Sultanum, A Daza, V Simaki… - … IEEE Evaluation and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Appropriate evaluation and experimental design are fundamental for empirical sciences,
particularly in data-driven fields. Due to the successes in computational modeling of …

[HTML][HTML] Stance classification of social media texts for under-resourced scenarios in social sciences

V Yantseva, K Kucher - Data, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, we explore the performance of supervised stance classification methods for
social media texts in under-resourced languages and using limited amounts of labeled data …

Eleven Years of Gender Data Visualization: A Step Towards More Inclusive Gender Representation

F Cabric, MV Bjarnadóttir, M Ling… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an analysis of the representation of gender as a data dimension in data
visualizations and propose a set of considerations around visual variables and annotations …

Illuminating the Landscape of Differential Privacy: An Interview Study on the Use of Visualization in Real-World Deployments

L Panavas, A Sarker, S Di Bartolomeo… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Differential Privacy (DP) transitions from theory to practice, visualization has surfaced as
a catalyst in promoting acceptance and usage. Despite the potential of visualization tools to …

From word clouds to Word Rain: Revisiting the classic word cloud to visualize climate change texts

M Skeppstedt, M Ahltorp, K Kucher… - Information …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Word Rain is a development of the classic word cloud. It addresses some of the limitations of
word clouds, in particular the lack of a semantically motivated positioning of the words, and …

Understanding people's needs in viewing diverse social opinions about controversial topics

H Song, Z Qi, J Stasko, D Yang - 2023 IEEE 16th Pacific …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social media (ie, Reddit) users are overloaded with people's opinions when viewing
discourses about divisive topics. Traditional user interfaces in such media present those …

Intelligent Government Decision-Making: A Multidimensional Policy Text Visualization Analysis System

C Lan, X Wang, J Ren, X Chen, S Chen - China National Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Government decision-making refers to the process of making decisions by government
departments in various domains, such as politics, economics, and culture, based on …