Interactively Visualizing Summaries of Rules and Exceptions

Abstract

Rules along with their exceptions have been used to explain large data sets in a comprehensible manner. In this paper we describe an interactive visualization scheme for rules and their exceptions. Our visual encoding is based on principles for creating perceptually effective visualizations from literature. Our visualization scheme presents an overview first, allows semantic zooming and then shows details on demand using established principles of interactive visualization. We assume that rules and exceptions have been mined and summarized using available techniques; however our visualization is applicable for more general rule hierarchies as well. We illustrate our visualization using rules and exceptions extracted from real customer surveys as well as on rule sets derived from past literature.