%0 Journal Article %1 benlahmar2021collaborative %A Ben Lahmar, Houssem %A Herschel, Melanie %D 2021 %J Information Systems %K 2021 d03 sfbtrr161 %P 101620 %R 10.1016/j.is.2020.101620 %T Collaborative filtering over evolution provenance data for interactive visual data exploration %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101620 %V 95 %X In interactive visual data exploration, users rely on recommendations on what data to explore next. EVLIN is a system that recommends queries to retrieve these data for the next exploration step, paired with suited visualizations. This paper extends EVLIN by combining its content-based recommendations with recommendations leveraging collaborative filtering to improve the effectiveness of recommendation-based visual data exploration. The recommendations rely on evolution provenance, which tracks users’ interactions during interactive visual data exploration. As more users explore a dataset, the evolution provenance of individual user explorations is incrementally integrated into a multi-user graph, for which we present match and merge algorithms. To compute collaborative-filtering recommendations, we present a search algorithm and optimizations to efficiently search queries similar to a current user’s query in the multi-user graph and give preference to queries that have been previously explored in an exploration step succeeding those similar queries. Our experimental evaluation studies the efficiency and effectiveness of the solutions proposed in this paper and demonstrates that using the full system with both content-based and collaborative-filtering recommendations enabled allows for effective interactive visual data exploration.

@article{benlahmar2021collaborative, abstract = {In interactive visual data exploration, users rely on recommendations on what data to explore next. EVLIN is a system that recommends queries to retrieve these data for the next exploration step, paired with suited visualizations. This paper extends EVLIN by combining its content-based recommendations with recommendations leveraging collaborative filtering to improve the effectiveness of recommendation-based visual data exploration. The recommendations rely on evolution provenance, which tracks users’ interactions during interactive visual data exploration. As more users explore a dataset, the evolution provenance of individual user explorations is incrementally integrated into a multi-user graph, for which we present match and merge algorithms. To compute collaborative-filtering recommendations, we present a search algorithm and optimizations to efficiently search queries similar to a current user’s query in the multi-user graph and give preference to queries that have been previously explored in an exploration step succeeding those similar queries. Our experimental evaluation studies the efficiency and effectiveness of the solutions proposed in this paper and demonstrates that using the full system with both content-based and collaborative-filtering recommendations enabled allows for effective interactive visual data exploration.}, added-at = {2021-06-23T12:34:04.000+0200}, author = {Ben Lahmar, Houssem and Herschel, Melanie}, bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2b5258d9f4bd3f96f5a005f5b6f2f204e/christinawarren}, doi = {10.1016/j.is.2020.101620}, interhash = {e2b4ae99b341938f8cf9791d103119ae}, intrahash = {b5258d9f4bd3f96f5a005f5b6f2f204e}, journal = {Information Systems}, keywords = {2021 d03 sfbtrr161}, pages = 101620, timestamp = {2021-06-23T10:34:04.000+0200}, title = {Collaborative filtering over evolution provenance data for interactive visual data exploration}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101620}, volume = 95, year = 2021 }