Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration

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Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration
Authors
Bryan Chan
Leslie Wu
Justin Talbot
Mike Cammarano
Pat Hanrahan
Publication date
2008
DOI
10.1109/TVCG.2008.178
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Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2008, written by Bryan Chan, Leslie Wu, Justin Talbot, Mike Cammarano and Pat Hanrahan.

Overview

Wikipedia is an example of the collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. These data sets have large, non-uniform schema that require costly data integration into structured tables before visualization can begin. Authors present Vispedia, a Web-based visualization system that reduces the cost of this data integration. Users can browse Wikipedia, select an interesting data table, then use a search interface to discover, integrate, and visualize additional columns of data drawn from multiple Wikipedia articles. This interaction is supported by a fast path search algorithm over DBpedia, a semantic graph extracted from Wikipedia's hyperlink structure. Vispedia can also export the augmented data tables produced for use in traditional visualization systems. Authors believe that these techniques begin to address the "long tail" of visualization by allowing a wider audience to visualize a broader class of data. Authors evaluated this system in a first-use formative lab study. Study participants were able to quickly create effective visualizations for a diverse set of domains, performing data integration as needed.

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Chan, Bryan; Wu, Leslie; Talbot, Justin; Cammarano, Mike; Hanrahan, Pat. (2008). "[[Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration]]".DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.178.

English Wikipedia

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Chan, Bryan; Wu, Leslie; Talbot, Justin; Cammarano, Mike; Hanrahan, Pat. (2008). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Vispedia:_Interactive_Visual_Exploration_of_Wikipedia_Data_via_Search-Based_Integration">Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.178.