The Interplay Between Mathematics/Computation and Analytics Haesun Park Division of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology FODAVA Review Meeting Dec. 3, 2009

FODAVA and Me PhD 87 Cornell, numerical comp. (numerical linear algebra), parallel computing, signal processing,.. Early 00’s, data analysis, text analysis, bioinformatics – dimension reduction (LDA, NMF), classification, clustering, NSF Program Director CCF –TF/Numeric, Symbolic, Geometric Computing –Graphics and Vis until Larry Rosenblum –MSPA/MCS (Visual Analytics from Larry R.) 2005, Georgia Tech, Division of Computational Science and Eng. 2007, Apr., DIMACS Workshop: Recent Advances in Math. and Information Sciences for Analysis and Understanding of Massive and Diverse Sources of Data, Wen Masters of ONR, and Fred Roberts of DIMACS, 2007 Fall, FODAVA, on campus team already formed based on CSE Seminar series (J. Stasko, …)

Visual Analytics Visual Analytics is the Science of Analytical Reasoning facilitated by Interactive Visual Interfaces (Thomas and Cook) Visual Analytics combines automated analysis techniques with interactive visualizations for an effective understanding, reasoning and decision making on the basis of very large and complex data sets (Keim et al.) Analytical Reasoning Data Representation and Transformation Production Presentation and Dissemination Visual Representation and Interaction I see, therefore, I analyze better. I see, therefore, I analyze better. “Solving a problem simply means representing it so that the solution is obvious.” Herbert Simon, 96

Visual Analytics is Truly Interdisciplinary Community very broad –Vis, HCI, Database, Cognitive Science, –FODAVA : math, statistics, computational science, data analysis, … Challenges –Communications –Different communities are used to different problem settings Opportunities –Maximally utilizing what human and computer can offer –Visual Representation and Interaction Writable vis (in contrast to readable vis) makes vis useful (P. Hanrahan) is the key facilitator between human and data

Data Representation & Transformation Tasks Classification Clustering Regression Dimension reduction Density estimation Retrieval of similar items Automatic summarization … Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Methods Modules in Data and Visual Analytics System Analytical Reasoning Tasks Identify the individual leaking classified information Determine if a set of suspicious events are related Predict the next stock market crash Identify best medical treatment based on genomic, population data … Human Knowledge Visual Representation and Interaction

Challenges Data Representation and Transformation vs. Analytical Reasoning Tasks Data representation and transformation concerned with answering questions for which solution process is rather well defined Analytical reasoning concerned with determining what questions to ask (e.g., formulating hypotheses) Analysts must continually iterate between these tasks Evaluation ? Scalability ? How does the Interplay come together ? Visualization is the way for the interplay to occur effectively Better identification of mapping between existing data representation and transformation and the steps of analytical reasoning tasks needed Expansion and refinement of data analytical tasks needed for extended mapping Careful design of visual representation and interaction

Interdisciplinary Activities Close collaboration of FODAVA teams with people in VA from vis and/or analytical reasoning community critical (ex. J. Stasko, NVAC (J. Thomas, S. Bohn), W. Ribarsky, DHS CoE: David Ebert ) FODAVA Test bed

Where to publish? IEEE TPAMI - IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence JMLR – Journal of Machine Learning Research Information Visualization InfoVis - IEEE Information Visualization Conference VAST - IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology NIPS - Neural Information Processing Systems ICML - International Conference on Machine Learning SIGKDD - ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Disc. and Data Mining SDM - SIAM Conference on Data Mining ICDM - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining CVPR - Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition WWW - International World Wide Web Conference WSDM - International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining AISTATS - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics CompStat - International Conference on Computational Statistics JSM - (American Statistical Association's) Joint Statistical Meetings