Intelligent Support for Exploratory Data Analysis
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
- Vol. 7 (4) , 545-558
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.1998.10474794
Abstract
Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is as much a matter of strategy as of selecting specific statistical operations. We have developed a knowledge-based planning system, called AIDE, to help users with EDA. AIDE strikes a balance between conventional statistical packages, which need guidance for every step in the exploration, and autonomous systems, which leave the user entirely out of the decision-making process. AIDE's processing is based on artificial intelligence planning techniques, which give us a useful means of representing some types of statistical strategy. In this article we describe the design of AIDE and its behavior in exploring a small, complex data set.Keywords
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