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Explaining Data to People

Explaining Data to People. Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen ) http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter. The Problem. A person’s memories is likely to include technical data Medical, finance, legal, educational, … How can we explain these to “the man in the street” Not very useful otherwise….

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Explaining Data to People

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  1. Explaining Data to People Ehud Reiter (Univ of Aberdeen) http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~ereiter

  2. The Problem • A person’s memories is likely to include technical data • Medical, finance, legal, educational, … • How can we explain these to “the man in the street” • Not very useful otherwise…

  3. Example: Scuba Dive • Many divers wear sensors which record depth at time points • Surely part of divers Memory • But kilobytes of numbers not very useful • Want summaries • “your deepest dive ever” • Want analyses • “this dive was dangerous, you ascended too quickly”

  4. Challenges • Data analysis • What is interesting, relevant? • Linguistic (graphical) communication • What is user has reading age of 8? • Affect • Bad news (“don’t dive again today”) • Many more!

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