提炼城市可视化分析系统的核心组件,构建可复用的设计蓝图。
VA-Blueprint: Uncovering Building Blocks for Visual Analytics System Design
- 通过分析20个系统,提取并分类视觉分析系统的基础构件。
- 利用大模型自动处理81篇论文,完成101篇系统的组件抽取与知识库构建。
- 为研究人员和开发者提供可复现、高效的设计参考框架。
设计和构建可视化分析(VA)系统是一项复杂且迭代的过程,需要无缝整合数据处理、分析能力和可视化技术。尽管以往研究深入探讨了VA系统创作中的社会与协作方面,但实际开发中的挑战仍缺乏系统探索。因此,尽管VA系统数量不断增加,但可用于指导设计与开发的结构化知识库却寥寥无几。为此,我们提出VA-Blueprint,一种方法论与知识库体系,系统性地回顾并分类城市类可视化分析系统的核心构建模块——该领域因数据复杂性和独特问题集而极具代表性。通过对首批20个系统应用该方法,我们识别并组织其核心组件为多层级结构,形成初始知识库与系统开发蓝图。为扩展此工作,我们借助大语言模型自动化提取另外81篇论文中的组件,完成包含101篇论文的完整语料库,并评估其在规模化知识库建设中的有效性。通过专家访谈与标注指标的定量分析验证方法效果。本研究深化了对VA系统构成的理解,为更结构化、可复现、高效的系统开发奠定实践基础。VA-Blueprint 已公开于 https://urbantk.org/va-blueprint。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Designing and building visual analytics (VA) systems is a complex, iterative process that requires the seamless integration of data processing, analytics capabilities, and visualization techniques. While prior research has extensively examined the social and collaborative aspects of VA system authoring, the practical challenges of developing these systems remain underexplored. As a result, despite the growing number of VA systems, there are only a few structured knowledge bases to guide their design and development. To tackle this gap, we propose VA-Blueprint, a methodology and knowledge base that systematically reviews and categorizes the fundamental building blocks of urban VA systems, a domain particularly rich and representative due to its intricate data and unique problem sets. Applying this methodology to an initial set of 20 systems, we identify and organize their core components into a multi-level structure, forming an initial knowledge base with a structured blueprint for VA system development. To scale this effort, we leverage a large language model to automate the extraction of these components for other 81 papers (completing a corpus of 101 papers), assessing its effectiveness in scaling knowledge base construction. We evaluate our method through interviews with experts and a quantitative analysis of annotation metrics. Our contributions provide a deeper understanding of VA systems' composition and establish a practical foundation to support more structured, reproducible, and efficient system development. VA-Blueprint is available at https://urbantk.org/va-blueprint.
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