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Visualization of Search Results of Large Document Sets
IS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology
  • James D. Anderson, Wright State University
  • Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University - Main Campus
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Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-26-2020
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When presented with many search results, finding information or patterns within the data poses a challenge. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a visualization enabling users to browse through voluminous information and comprehend the data. Implemented with the JavaScript library Data Driven Documents (D3), the visualization represents the search as clusters of similar documents grouped into bubbles with the contents depicted as word-clouds. Highly interactive features such as touch gestures and intuitive menu actions allow for expeditious exploration of the search results. Other features include drag-and-drop functionality for articles among bubbles, merging nodes, and refining the search by selecting specific terms or articles to receive more similar results. A user study consisting of a survey questionnaire demonstrated that in comparison to a standard text-browser for viewing search results, the visualization performs commensurate or better on most metrics.

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10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2020.1.VDA-388
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James D. Anderson and Thomas Wischgoll. "Visualization of Search Results of Large Document Sets" IS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Vol. 2020 Iss. 1 (2020) p. 388-1 - 388-7 ISSN: 2470-1173
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_wischgoll/115/