The paper proposes TimeFlows as a way to visually represent process chronologies, which are used to reconstruct how a controversial policy or decision came into existence, particularly in the context of parliamentary inquiries.
The key insights are:
Interviews with expert analysts revealed that they use a variety of relationships to construct process chronologies, including temporal, subject, entity, causal, and correspondence relations, as well as some additional relations like succession, references to, and consists of.
The TimeFlow visualization extends existing timeline and graph-based representations by capturing this rich set of relationships and linking events to the underlying information objects (e.g. emails, reports, meeting minutes) from which they are extracted.
An example TimeFlow is presented for the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal, illustrating how the different relation types can be used to provide a comprehensive and intuitive representation of the process.
The paper outlines several challenges for future research, including automated data mining, mapping between data and visualization, interactive model building, and supporting different user perspectives on the process chronology.
Overall, the TimeFlow approach aims to address the limitations of existing linear timelines and graph-based representations, providing a more flexible and expressive way to visually analyze non-repetitive processes from heterogeneous information sources.
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by Max Lonysa M... о arxiv.org 04-26-2024
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