All Outputs (129)

Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Khartabil, D., Collins, C., Wells, S., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389

This paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artefacts of reasoning widely used across domains such as education, policy making, and science. An argument i... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration.

BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning (2018)
Journal Article
Vogogias, A., Kennedy, J., Archambault, D., Bach, B., Smith, V. A., & Currant, H. (2018). BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning. ACM transactions on intelligent systems and technology, 10(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3230623

We address the problem of exploring, combining and comparing large collections of scored, directed networks for understanding inferred Bayesian networks used in biology. In this feld, heuristic algorithms explore the space of possible network solutio... Read More about BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning.

Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, M., Grinstein, G., Johnson, C. R., Kennedy, J., & Tory, M. (2017). Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 37(4), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2017.3271463

There is little doubt that having a theoretic foundation will benefit the field of visualization, including its main subfields: information visualization, scientific visualization and visual analytics, as well as many domain-specific applications suc... Read More about Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization.

A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation (2015)
Journal Article
Kerracher, N., Kennedy, J., & Chalmers, K. (2015). A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(10), 1160-1172. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2015.2424889

By extending and instantiating an existing formal task framework, we define a task taxonomy and task design space for temporal graph visualisation. We discuss the process involved in their generation, and describe how the design space can be ‘sliced... Read More about A Task Taxonomy for Temporal Graph Visualisation.

Temporal Multivariate Networks. (2014)
Book Chapter
Archambault, D., Abello, J., Kennedy, J., Kobourov, S., Ma, K., Miksch, S., Muelder, C., & Telea, A. C. (2014). Temporal Multivariate Networks. In A. Kerren, H. Purchase, & M. Ward (Eds.), Multivariate Network Visualization (151-175). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06793-3_8

In this chapter, we define, characterize, and summarize the data and visualization techniques relating to temporal multivariate networks. Section 2.1.1 provides definitions and examples that characterize the networks we address in this chapter. We fu... Read More about Temporal Multivariate Networks..

Vesper: Visualising species archives (2014)
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2014). Vesper: Visualising species archives. Ecological Informatics, 24, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.004

Vesper (Visual Exploration of SPEcies-referenced Repositories) is a tool that visualises Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) datasets, and is aimed at reducing the amount of time and effort expended by biologists to ascertain the quality of data they are gen... Read More about Vesper: Visualising species archives.

Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing. (2014)
Journal Article
Roberts, J. C., Ritsos, P. D., Badam, S. K., Brodbeck, D., Kennedy, J., & Elmqvist, N. (2014). Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 34(6), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2014.82

Visualization is coming of age. With visual depictions being seamlessly integrated into documents, and data visualization techniques being used to understand increasingly large and complex datasets, the term "visualization"' is becoming used in every... Read More about Visualization beyond the desktop--the Next Big Thing..

Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees (2014)
Journal Article
Shaw, P., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Milne, I., & Marshall, D. F. (2014). Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 15, Article 259. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-259

Plant breeders use an increasingly diverse range of data types to identify lines with desirable characteristics suitable to be taken forward in plant breeding programmes. There are a number of key morphological and physiological traits, such as disea... Read More about Helium: visualization of large scale plant pedigrees.

MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer. (2013)
Journal Article
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., & Kennedy, J. (2013). MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer. BMC Bioinformatics, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S19-S1

Background
High throughput gene expression time-course experiments provide a perspective on biological functioning recognized as having huge value for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases. There are however significant challenges to... Read More about MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer..

Visual cleaning of genotype data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, J., Graham, M., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2013). Visual cleaning of genotype data. In Proceedings of BioVis 2013 (105-112). https://doi.org/10.1109/BioVis.2013.6664353

While some data cleaning tasks can be performed automatically, many more require expert human guidance to steer the cleaning process, especially if erroneous or unclean data is a product of relationships between entities. An example is pedigree genot... Read More about Visual cleaning of genotype data..

Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, A., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2013). Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. In Proceedings of IV2013 (123-131). https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2013.15

Monitoring log files for network intrusions is unwieldy. To build a mental model of the log, an analyst is required to recognise continuous timelines and attack patterns from a dataset that is essentially limited to an ordered list of events. Informa... Read More about Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data..

Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2012). Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation. In Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2012 (741-744). https://doi.org/10.1145/2254556.2254698

We describe a visual data cleansing application for pedigree genotype data, which is used to redeem otherwise unusable pedigree data sets. Biologists and bioinformaticians dynamically and iteratively mask pieces of information from a dirty data set a... Read More about Redeeming pedigree data with an interactive error cleaning visualisation..

VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees (2012)
Journal Article
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Law, A. (2012). VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 13/8, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S8-S5

Pedigree genotype datasets are used for analysing genetic inheritance and to map genetic markers and traits. Such datasets consist of hundreds of related animals genotyped for thousands of genetic markers and invariably contain multiple errors in bot... Read More about VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees.

A comparison of techniques for name matching (2012)
Journal Article
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2012). A comparison of techniques for name matching. GSTF journal on computing, 2,

Information explosion is a problem for everyone nowadays. It is a great challenge to all kinds of businesses to maintain high quality of data in their information applications, such as data integration, text and web mining, information retrieval, sea... Read More about A comparison of techniques for name matching.

MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., & Kennedy, J. (2012). MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer. In 2012 IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) (41-48). https://doi.org/10.1109/biovis.2012.6378591

This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of the Microarray Time-Series Explorer (MaTSE), a novel information visualization application for the exploratory analysis of large scale microarray timeseries data. The software combines a... Read More about MaTSE: The microarray time-series explorer.

Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data (2011)
Journal Article
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

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... Read More about Research directions in data wrangling: Visualizations and transformations for usable and credible data.

An evaluation of name matching techniques. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2011). An evaluation of name matching techniques. In Proceedings of 2nd Annual International Conference on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

Abstract—There is a growing awareness that the high quality of string matching is a key to a variety of applications, such as data integration, text and web mining, information retrieval, search engine. In such applications, matching names is one of... Read More about An evaluation of name matching techniques..

BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, October). BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. The goal of the BioVis 2011 symposium is to create t... Read More about BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings..

Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Law, A. (2011, October). Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. Presented at 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization

VIPER (Visual Pedigree Explorer) is a tool for exploring large complex animal pedigrees and their associated genotype data. The tool combines a novel, space-efficient visualisation of the pedigree structure with an inheritance-checking algorithm. Thi... Read More about Evaluating the VIPER pedigree visualisation: detecting inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees..

Visualising errors in animal pedigree genotype data (2011)
Journal Article
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., Paterson, T., & Law, A. (2011). Visualising errors in animal pedigree genotype data. Computer Graphics Forum, 30, 1011-1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01950.x

Genetic analysis of a breeding animal population involves determining the inheritance pattern of genotypes for multiple genetic markers across the individuals in the population pedigree structure. However, experimental pedigree genotype data invariab... Read More about Visualising errors in animal pedigree genotype data.