DM: RE: Re: DM Visualization

[Smart, Bill]

Sandra,

I would also like to add that in my opinion and experience, data
visualization tools provide a solution to only a very small part of 
the
entire knowledge discovery process.

Bill Smart
Director of Knowledge Discovery
NCR HITC Lab - Atlanta, GA

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Barry Becker [SMTP:becker@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, May 19, 1998 12:44 PM
        To:     uorb@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
        Cc:     datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com
        Subject:        DM: Re: DM Visualization

        Sandra,

          Here's an attempt to answer your questions.

        1) I believe data mining is but one step in the
           knowledge discovery process.
        2,3) In my biased opinion SGI's MineSet is the best product
           for doing data mining on, and visualization of 
           large databases. 
           see http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet/
           It is available at low cost to Universities through
           the SGI varsty program.
             There are a few other products that do visualization
           of relational data, but most have difficulty with 
           very large databases.
        4) Probably the best place to look to 
          find material on visualization are the 
          IEEE Visualization proceedings, and 
          IEEE Information Visualization proceedings.
          Other useful sources are Tufte's 3 books on 
          the Visual Presentation of Information,
          and Cleveland's "Visualizing Data".



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        Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:27:29 +0200
        From: Sandra Poprawski <uorb@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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        Dear ladies and gentlemen,

        I am a student of the University of Karlsruhe and I am 
interested in
        getting some information about data mining or KDD in general.
        These are my questions:
        (1) What is the difference between data mining an KDD 
(knowledge
        discovery of databases)?
        (2) Are there any companies which take part in this list of
discussion
        and use special tools for visualization of large databases ? 
What
kind
        of tools are there or what else do you prefer for 
presentation ?
        (3) Are there any other systems than VisDB existing (that's 
the one
I'm
        working on)?
        (4) Does anyone know good literature about visualization in 
general?

        I would be very glad if my questions will be answered soon!
        Thanks!

        Sandra Poprawski

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