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VisGuides: A Forum for Discussing Visualization Guidelines

This paper presents VisGuides, a discussion platform to facilitate the collection, evaluation, critique, revision, and dissemination of visualization guidelines. As visualization becomes a more widespread discipline with much more attention by …

Feature Alignment for the Analysis of Verbatim Text Transcripts

In the research of deliberative democracy, political scientists are interested in analyzing the communication models of discussions, debates, and mediation processes with the goal of extracting reoccurring discourse patterns from the verbatim …

Interactive Visual Analysis of Transcribed Multi-Party Discourse

We present the first web-based Visual Analytics framework for the analysis of multi-party discourse data using verbatim text transcripts. Our framework supports a broad range of server-based processing steps, ranging from data mining and sta-tistical …

Risk the drift! Stretching disciplinary boundaries through critical collaborations between the humanities and visualization

In this paper, we discuss collaborations that can emerge between humanities and visualization researchers. Based on four case studies we illustrate different collaborative constellations within such cross-disciplinary projects that are influenced as …

Visual Analysis of Geolocated Echo Chambers in Social Media

In news media, echo chambers refer to situations in which information is amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition. The characteristic of an echo chamber is, therefore, the absence of controversial discussions and a narrow set of …

Argumentanalyse in digitalen Textkorpora

Das VisArgue Projekt hat zum Ziel, automatisch zu erfassen, ob Verhandlungsteilnehmer deliberativ agieren, d. h. ob sie ihre Positionen u. a. respektvoll und rational begründen und sich schlussendlich dem besten Argument fügen. Die Datenbasis sind …

Dynamite: Dynamic Monitoring Interface for Task Ensembles

In many applications from telephone fraud detection to network management, data arrives in a stream, and there is a need to maintain a variety of statistical summary information about a large number of customers in an online fashion. At present, such …

Generative Data Models for Validation and Evaluation of Visualization Techniques

We argue that there is a need for substantially more research on the use of generative data models in the validation and evaluation of visualization techniques. For example, user studies will require the display of representative and uncon-founded …

VisArgue : A Visual Text Analytics Framework for the Study of Deliberative Communication

For the last two decades, deliberative democracy has been intensively debated within political science and other related fields. Only recently, deliberation research has experienced a computational turn. In this paper, we present a linguistic and …

Visual Text Analytics in Context of Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities (DH) research brings together scholars from different disciplines to work on tackling a common research challenge. Hence, DH-projects have to overcome common challenges of multi-disciplinary research, such as methodological …