Provenance and logging for sense making

Fekete, Jean-Daniel, Jankun-Kelly, T. J., Tory, Melanie and Xu, Kai ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2242-5440 (2019) Provenance and logging for sense making. Dagstuhl Reports, 8 (11) . pp. 35-62. ISSN 2192-5283 [Article] (doi:10.4230/DagRep.8.11.35)

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Abstract

Sense making is one of the biggest challenges in data analysis faced by both the industry and the research community. It involves understanding the data and uncovering its model, generating a hypothesis, selecting analysis methods, creating novel solutions, designing evaluation, and also critical thinking and learning wherever needed. The research and development for such sense making tasks lags far behind the fast-changing user needs, such as those that emerged recently as the result of so-called “Big Data”. As a result, sense making is often performed manually and the limited human cognition capability becomes the bottleneck of sense making in data analysis and decision making.

One of the recent advances in sense making research is the capture, visualization, and analysis of provenance information. Provenance is the history and context of sense making, including the data/analysis used and the users’ critical thinking process. It has been shown that provenance can effectively support many sense making tasks. For instance, provenance can provide an overview of what has been examined and reveal gaps like unexplored information or solution possibilities.

Besides, provenance can support collaborative sense making and communication by sharing the rich context of the sense making process. Besides data analysis and decision making, provenance has been studied in many other fields, sometimes under different names, for different types of sense making. For example, the Human-Computer Interaction community relies on the analysis of logging to understand user behaviors and intentions; the WWW and database community has been working on data lineage to understand uncertainty and trustworthiness; and finally, reproducible science heavily relies on provenance to improve the reliability and efficiency of scientific research.

This Dagstuhl Seminar brought together researchers from the diverse fields that relate to provenance and sense making to foster cross-community collaboration. Shared challenges were identified and progress has been made towards developing novel solutions.

Item Type: Article
Keywords (uncontrolled): Logging, provenance, sensemaking, visualization
Research Areas: A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science
Item ID: 31392
Notes on copyright: © The Author(s)
Except where otherwise noted, content of this report is licensed under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 Unported license
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Depositing User: Kai Xu
Date Deposited: 16 Nov 2020 08:40
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2020 11:33
URI: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/31392

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