ankit/see — Issue #4: 2nd View was not Helpful
Author: JacobMoore
Created: 2011-11-21 23:50:08+00:00
State: open

In solving the Atlantic Storm dataset, I did not find the second view (following connected biclusters) helpful at all. There were a number of issues I ran into. The first view helped identify key items that were central to the plot, but exploring the connections was easier with the documents themselves. Here are some reasons.

1. The most related biclusters did not necessarily add new information. It might be part of the original social circle plus the word "FBI" which is just because of the documents. I seemed to be stuck revisiting the same information over and over again when following the tool. There was no sense of following a story, I could only do that with the documents. This is more related to biclusters as a tool than it is to our visualization as a tool.

2. In a related note, entities such as "FBI" which are of no practical relevance dominated the visualizations. Some way to eliminate entities as important connections would be helpful.

3. There was no way to explore in the 2nd view. You can select other nodes but that does not bring them to the center.

4. There was no good way in the second view to tell which entities belonged to which bicluster. They were just lumped together in one bicluster.