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Record W7146975720 · doi:10.1145/3769872.3769897

iTrace: Interactive tracing of Cross-View Data Relationships

2025· article· W7146975720 on OpenAlexaff
Abdul Rahman Shaikh, Maoyuan Sun, Hamed Alhoori, Jian Zhao, David Koop

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicData Visualization and Analytics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNational Science Foundation
KeywordsFocus (optics)VisualizationData visualizationTask (project management)TRACE (psycholinguistics)Visual analyticsTracingPerspective (graphical)

Abstract

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Exploring data relations across multiple views has been a common task in many domains such as bioinformatics, cybersecurity, and healthcare. To support this, various techniques (e.g., visual links and brushing & linking) are used to show related visual elements across views via lines and highlights. However, understanding the relations using these techniques, when many related elements are scattered, can be difficult due to spatial distance and complexity. To address this, we present iTrace, an interactive visualization technique to effectively trace cross-view data relationships. iTrace leverages the concept of interactive focus transitions, which allows users to see and directly manipulate their focus as they navigate between views. By directing the user’s attention through smooth transitions between related elements, iTrace makes it easier to follow data relationships. We demonstrate the effectiveness of iTrace with a user study, and we conclude with a discussion of how iTrace can be broadly used to enhance data exploration in various types of visualizations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.136
GPT teacher head0.436
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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