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iVAS: An interactive visual analytic system for frequent set mining
Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies: Data, Text and Web Mining Applications, chapter 13, IGI Global, (2011)
Abstract
Nowadays, various data, text, and web mining applications can easily generate large volumes of data. Embedded within these data is previously unknown and potential useful knowledge such as frequently occurring sets of items, merchandise, or events. Hence, numerous algorithms have been proposed for finding these frequent sets, which are usually presented in a lengthy textual list. However, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. The use of visual representations can enhance user understanding of the inherent relations among the frequent sets. Although a few visualizers have been developed, most of them were not designed for visualizing the mined frequent sets. In this chapter, an interactive visual analytic system called iVAS is proposed for providing visual analytic solutions to the frequent set mining problem. The system enables the visualization and advanced analysis of the original transaction databases as well as the frequent sets mined from these databases.
