The State of the Art in Integrating Machine Learning into Visual Analytics
This is an incremental state-of-the-art report for researchers in visual analytics, summarizing existing advances without new results.
The paper reviews progress in combining machine learning with interactive data visualization for sensemaking in complex data, identifying opportunities and challenges for future research.
Visual analytics systems combine machine learning or other analytic techniques with interactive data visualization to promote sensemaking and analytical reasoning. It is through such techniques that people can make sense of large, complex data. While progress has been made, the tactful combination of machine learning and data visualization is still under-explored. This state-of-the-art report presents a summary of the progress that has been made by highlighting and synthesizing select research advances. Further, it presents opportunities and challenges to enhance the synergy between machine learning and visual analytics for impactful future research directions.