Transcript Protein Association Discovery in Biomedical Literature

Discovery of Working Activities
by Email Analysis
Yueyu Fu & Hong Zhang
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University
JCDL’03, May 31th, 2003
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Outline
• Motivation
• Visualization Goal
• System Design
• Conclusion
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Motivation
Explore working activity involved
in email communication using
Treemap algorithm.
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Background
• Use of Email
• Communication
• Personal archiving
• Task management
• Problem
As the number of email we exchange increase at a
high rate, it’s getting hard to manage personal email
box.
• Related research
• Thread – based Visualization
• Time – based Visualization
• Examples: Timestore, Outlook 2000 and NEC’s VisualMail
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Visualization Goal
• Goal - Explore working activity involved in email
communication using Treemap algorithm.
• User Analysis
• Intended audience - any one communicating
extensively with others by email. For instance,
programmers email each other to solve programming
bugs.
• Task Analysis
• Identify the email patterns by the sender information
• Identify the email patterns by the subject information
• Display email content
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Data Analysis & Data Mining
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Dataset size: 1695 emails
Data format: MS Access table
Dataset topic: Software development
Data attributes: subject, sender, body, receiver,
& etc.
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Hierarchical Structure of Dataset
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Design
• Each email will be represented as a rectangular in the
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Treemap.
Two interfaces will be provided.
Emails will be grouped together by subject or sender.
The colors represent different subjects or senders.
Quick tooltip will be shown when the mouse is placed
over a specific rectangular.
After clicking the rectangular assigned to an email, a
pop-up window containing email content will be shown.
The control panel will allow user to manipulate the
Treemap to get an optimal view.
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User Interface Overview
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Interface I – Individual activities
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Interface II – Component distribution
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Interactive Function: Tooltip
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Interactive Function: Pop-up Window
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Selected References
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C. Bouthier, Treemap visualization package, 2001. Available at
http://treemap.sourceforge.net.
J. Baumgartner, Y. Zou, and K. Börner, Space Filling or Treemap
Algorithms at http://iv.slis.indiana.edu/treemap.html
S. L. Rohall, D. Gruen, P. Moody and S. Kellerman, “Email
Visualiztions to Aid Communications”, Late-Breading Topics,
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization,
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October 22-23, 2001, San Diego, CA., pp. 12-15.
S. Sudarsky and R. Hjelsvold, “Visualizing Electronic Mail”,
International Conference on Information Visualization, 10-12 July
2002, London, England, UK., pp. 3-9.
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Thank you!
Any questions?
Contact
Yueyu Fu
[email protected]
Laboratory for Applied Informatics Research
Indiana University
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