DcPAIRS: A Pairs Plot Based Decision Support System
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2017
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Visualizations designed to support multi-attribute decisions often use colors to encode the identity of the attributes. This approach facilitates mapping of attributes across multiple coordinated views but it has certain limitations: colors often communicate semantics (e.g., red stands for ''danger'') deemed to influence the user's preference, and qualitative color palettes are of limited scalability. We are currently developing a tool with an alternative approach, DCPAIRS: a pairs plot based decision making support tool that employs a compact overview of the decision space and uses visual encodings that communicate uncertainty and suboptimal preference elicitation. Instead of encoding the identity of attributes we use colors for user-authored annotations to support the decision making process. A use case scenario of a prospective undergraduate student choosing a university from the ''QS world university ranking'' dataset illustrates the functionality of the tool.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurp.20171165,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2017 - Posters},
editor = {Anna Puig Puig and Tobias Isenberg},
title = {{DcPAIRS: A Pairs Plot Based Decision Support System}},
author = {Dimara, Evanthia and Valdivia, Paola and Kinkeldey, Christoph},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-044-4},
DOI = {10.2312/eurp.20171165}
}