ACM SIGMOD Blog

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Category: Visualization

Data Exploration and Visual Analytics Challenges in AI Era 

The International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics (BigVis) is an annual event, which brings together scholars from the communities of Data Management & Mining, Information Visualization, Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. The 7th BigVis event (BigVis 2024)1 was…

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Utilizing the Synergy between Query Refinement and View Recommendation for Visual Data Exploration

In this blog, we discuss the potential benefits of augmenting automated view recommendation solutions with query refinement techniques towards achieving insightful data exploration. Particularly, effective data exploration has been fueled by many approaches that rely on either view recommendation…

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Simulating Infection Spread

It might seem obvious that reducing social movement will reduce the spread of infection. However, it is not obvious how much it will reduce. Will it be enough to stop the virus? Will it only slow it down? How long do we expect the virus to last in regions with differing population densities? While…

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