RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions

Ranking is a natural and ubiquitous way to facilitate decision-making in various applications. However, different rankings are often used for the same set of entities, with each ranking method placing emphasis on different factors. These factors can also be multi-dimensional in nature, compounding t...

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Main Authors: PURI, Abishek, KU, Bon Kyung, WANG, Yong, QU, Huamin
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-63622020-11-19T07:13:27Z RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions PURI, Abishek KU, Bon Kyung WANG, Yong QU, Huamin Ranking is a natural and ubiquitous way to facilitate decision-making in various applications. However, different rankings are often used for the same set of entities, with each ranking method placing emphasis on different factors. These factors can also be multi-dimensional in nature, compounding the problem. This complexity can make it challenging for an entity which is being ranked to understand what they can do to improve their rankings, and to analyze the effect of changes in various factors to their overall rank. In this paper, we present RankBooster, a novel visual analytics system to help users conveniently investigate ranking predictions. We take university rankings as an example and focus on helping universities to better explore their rankings, where they can compare themselves to their rivals in key areas as well as overall. Novel visualizations are proposed to enable efficient analysis of rankings, including a Scenario Analysis View to show a high-level summary of different ranking scenarios, a Relationship View to visualize the influence of each attribute on different indicators and a Rival View to compare the ranking of a university and those of its rivals. A case study demonstrates the usefulness and effectiveness of RankBooster in facilitating the visual analysis of ranking predictions and helping users better understand their current situation 2020-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5358 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6362/viewcontent/2004.06435.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Human-centered computing Visual analytics Information visualization Databases and Information Systems Software Engineering
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Human-centered computing
Visual analytics
Information visualization
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
spellingShingle Human-centered computing
Visual analytics
Information visualization
Databases and Information Systems
Software Engineering
PURI, Abishek
KU, Bon Kyung
WANG, Yong
QU, Huamin
RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
description Ranking is a natural and ubiquitous way to facilitate decision-making in various applications. However, different rankings are often used for the same set of entities, with each ranking method placing emphasis on different factors. These factors can also be multi-dimensional in nature, compounding the problem. This complexity can make it challenging for an entity which is being ranked to understand what they can do to improve their rankings, and to analyze the effect of changes in various factors to their overall rank. In this paper, we present RankBooster, a novel visual analytics system to help users conveniently investigate ranking predictions. We take university rankings as an example and focus on helping universities to better explore their rankings, where they can compare themselves to their rivals in key areas as well as overall. Novel visualizations are proposed to enable efficient analysis of rankings, including a Scenario Analysis View to show a high-level summary of different ranking scenarios, a Relationship View to visualize the influence of each attribute on different indicators and a Rival View to compare the ranking of a university and those of its rivals. A case study demonstrates the usefulness and effectiveness of RankBooster in facilitating the visual analysis of ranking predictions and helping users better understand their current situation
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author PURI, Abishek
KU, Bon Kyung
WANG, Yong
QU, Huamin
author_facet PURI, Abishek
KU, Bon Kyung
WANG, Yong
QU, Huamin
author_sort PURI, Abishek
title RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
title_short RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
title_full RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
title_fullStr RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
title_full_unstemmed RankBooster: Visual analysis of ranking predictions
title_sort rankbooster: visual analysis of ranking predictions
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5358
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6362/viewcontent/2004.06435.pdf
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