SALS-SIG Research Seminar
Visualisation in Data Mining: Better Decisions, Faster
| Speaker: | Dr Mark Grundy |
| | Researcher/Education Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra |
| Date: | Tuesday 3rd March 1998 |
| Time: | 11:30am |
| Place: | Seminar room 357, Department of Computing, Building E6A, Macquarie University |
Abstract
The field of data mining can be described as extracting new, useful
information implicit in (usually vast quantities of) data, and has
applications in science and business. Typically the algorithms
used to locate this information are highly sophisticated, and
beyond the reach of the domain expert or decision-maker who wants
to use the information that results.
This talk outlines the benefits and opportunities in data mining
from high-end visualisation techniques such as virtual reality. It
shows some preliminary investigations into such visualisation, and
describes a visualisation system in development for use in understanding
data clusters and other applications.
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Grundy is a Research Fellow and Education Program Manager in the
ACSys Cooperative Research Centre at the Australian National University.
Receiving his doctorate in automated reasoning at the University of Sydney
in 1991, he abandoned this field in stages, chasing first bigger
computers, then sexier graphics and finally, more lucrative
business applications.
He now lives in the ANU's Department of Computer Science where he
lectures, recruits students to industry-linked research, and slinks off
from time to time to plot fraud detection methodologies with the
Health Insurance Commission and Australian Taxation Office.
Enquiries:
sals@mri.mq.edu.au
| Last modified: February, 1998 |
