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Events on March 13, 2015

Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen, Graduate Student Presents:

A Data Scalable Approach for Identifying Relationships in Parallel Coordinates

March 13, 2015 at 12:00pm for 1hr
Evans Conference Room, WEB 3780
Warnock Engineering Building, 3rd floor.

Abstract:

Parallel Coordinates Plots (PCPs) are a well-known visualization technique for exploring multi-attribute datasets. In many situations, data consumers find them to be an intuitive method to analyze and interact with data. Unfortunately, using PCPs becomes challenging as the number of data items grows large or trends within data cause overlap in the visualization. The resulting overdraw can obscure important data features. A number of modifications have been proposed to PCPs, including using color, opacity, smooth curves, frequency, density, and animation, to mitigate this problem, better revealing relationships. However, these modified PCPs tend to have their own limitations in the kinds of relationships they emphasize. We propose a new interactive design for representing and exploring data relationships in PCPs. In this approach, we exploit the point/line duality property of PCPs and a local linear assumption of data to extract and to represent relationship summarizations. This approach simultaneously shows relationships in the data, and the consistency of those relationships. Our approach supports various visualization tasks including cluster analysis, mixed linear and nonlinear relationship identification, hidden pattern detection and outlier detection, all in large data. We demonstrate the results on multiple synthetic and real-world large data sets. Finally, we compare and evaluate our method with the conventional PCPs through the different visualization tasks.

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Tamara G. Kolda

Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratory Presents:

Tensor Analysis for Sparse and Network Data

March 13, 2015 at 2:00pm for 1hr
Evans Conference Room, WEB 3780
Warnock Engineering Building, 3rd floor.

Abstract:

Tensors are higher-order or n-way arrays. They have proven useful in a wide variety of data analysis tasks in applications ranging from chemometrics to sociology to neuroscience, and much more. We discuss how tensor decomposition can be used to analyze sparse data coming from network science and other learning tasks. For instance, a time-evolving network can be naturally expressed as a third-order tensor. This talk explores the applicability of tensor analysis, its connection to matrix-based methods, as well as mathematical and computational considerations. We illustrate the utility of tensor decompositions with several examples.

Bio:
Tamara (Tammy) Kolda is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Informatics and Systems Assessments department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. Her research interests include multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, graph models and algorithms, data mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, parallel computing and the design of scientific software. Tamara has received SDM2013 and ICDM2008 Best Paper Prizes and a 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She currently serves on the SIAM Board of Trustees, as Section Editor for the Software and High Performance Computing Section of SISC, as Associate Editor for SIMAX, and as an Editor for the newly-formed PeerJ Computer Science online open-access journal.

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