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Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data

Kandel, Sean; Heer, Jeffrey; Plaisant, Catherine; Kennedy, Jessie; Ham, Frank van; Riche, Nathalie Henry; Weaver, Chris; Lee, Bongshin; Brodbeck, Dominique; Buono, Paolo

Authors

Sean Kandel

Jeffrey Heer

Catherine Plaisant

Frank van Ham

Nathalie Henry Riche

Chris Weaver

Bongshin Lee

Dominique Brodbeck

Paolo Buono



Abstract

In spite of advances in technologies for working with data, analysts still spend an inordinate amount of time diagnosing data quality issues and manipulating data into a usable form. This process of ‘data wrangling’ often constitutes the most tedious and time-consuming aspect of analysis. Though data cleaning and integration arelongstanding issues in the database community, relatively little research has explored how interactive visualization can advance the state of the art. In this article, we review the challenges and opportunities associated with addressing data quality issues. We argue that analysts might more effectively wrangle data through new interactive systems that integrate data verification, transformation, and visualization. We identify a number of outstanding research questions, including how appropriate visual encodings can facilitate apprehension of missing data, discrepant values, and uncertainty; how interactive visualizations might facilitate data transform specification; and how recorded provenance and social interaction might enable wider reuse, verification, and modification of data transformations.

Citation

Kandel, S., Heer, J., Plaisant, C., Kennedy, J., Ham, F. V., Riche, N. H., …Buono, P. (2011). Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data. Information Visualization, Octobe, 271-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871611415994

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2011
Deposit Date Dec 12, 2011
Publicly Available Date May 16, 2017
Print ISSN 1473-8716
Electronic ISSN 1473-8724
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume Octobe
Pages 271-288
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871611415994
Keywords Data; analysis; databases; interactive visualisation; visual encoding; data transformations;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4767
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473871611415994

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