[Truncated abstract] Many databases in scientific and business applications have grown exponentially in size in recent years. Accessing and using databases is no longer a specialized activity as more and more ordinary users without any specialized knowledge are trying to gain information from databases. Both expert and ordinary users face significant challenges in understanding the information stored in databases. The databases are so large in most cases that it is impossible to gain useful information by inspecting data tables, which are the most common form of storing data in relational databases. Visualization has emerged as one of the most important techniques for exploring data stored in large databases. Appropriate visualization techniques can reveal trends, correlations and associations in data that are very difficult to understand from a textual representation of the data. This thesis presents several new frameworks for data visualization and visual data mining. The first technique, VisEx, is useful for visual exploration of large multi-attribute datasets and especially for exploring the correlations among the attributes in such datasets. Most previous visualization techniques can display correlations among two or three attributes at a time without excessive screen clutter. ... Although many algorithms for mining association rules have been researched extensively, they do not incorporate users in the process and most of them generate a large number of association rules. It is quite often difficult for the user to analyze a large number of rules to identify a small subset of rules that is of importance to the user. In this thesis I present a framework for the user to interactively mine association rules visually. Another challenging task in data mining is to understand the correlations among the mined association rules. It is often difficult to identify a relevant subset of association rules from a large number of mined rules. A further contribution of this thesis is a simple framework in the VisAR system that allows the user to explore a large number of association rules visually. A variety of businesses have adopted new technologies for storing large amounts of data. Analysis of historical data quite often offers new insights into business processes that may increase productivity and profit. On-line analytical processing (OLAP) has become a powerful tool for business analysts to explore historical data. Effective visualization techniques are very important for supporting OLAP technology. A new technique for the visual exploration of OLAP data cubes is also presented in this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/221474 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Techaplahetvanich, Kesaraporn |
| Publisher | University of Western Australia. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Kesaraporn Techaplahetvanich, http://www.itpo.uwa.edu.au/UWA-Computer-And-Software-Use-Regulations.html |
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