Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics.
Data visualization is the primary means by which data analysts explore patterns, trends, and insights in their data. Unfortunately, existing visual analytics tools offer limited expressiveness and scalability when it comes to searching for visualizations over large datasets, making visual data explo...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 65; no. 7; pp. 85 - 95 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2022
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