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Towards Supporting Interpretability of Clustering Results with Uncertainty Visualization

Kinkeldey, Christoph; Korjakow, Tim; Benjamin, Jesse Josua – 2019

Interpretation of machine learning results is a major challenge for non-technical experts, with visualization being a common approach to support this process. For instance, interpretation of clustering results is usually based on scatterplots that provide information about cluster characteristics implicitly through the relative location of objects. However, the locations and distances tend to be distorted because of artifacts stemming from dimensionality reduction. This makes interpretation of clusters difficult and may lead to distrust in the system. Most existing approaches that counter this drawback explain the distances in the scatterplot (e.g., error visualization) to foster the interpretability of implicit information. Instead, we suggest explicit visualization of the uncertainty related to the information needed for interpretation, specifically the uncertain membership of each object to its cluster. In our approach, we place objects on a grid, and add a continuous ''topography'' in the background, expressing the distribution of uncertainty over all clusters. We motivate our approach from a use case in which we visualize research projects, clustered by topics extracted from scientific abstracts. We hypothesize that uncertainty visualization can increase trust in the system, which we specify as an emergent property of interaction with an interpretable system. We present a first prototype and outline possible procedures for evaluating if and how the uncertainty visualization approach affects interpretability and trust.

Title
Towards Supporting Interpretability of Clustering Results with Uncertainty Visualization
Author
Kinkeldey, Christoph; Korjakow, Tim; Benjamin, Jesse Josua
Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Location
Geneve
Keywords
Ikon
Date
2019
Identifier
10.2312/trvis.20191183
Appeared in
EuroVis Workshop on Trustworthy Visualization (TrustVis)
Type
Text
BibTeX Code
@inproceedings{kinkeldey_towards_2019,
author = {Kinkeldey, Christoph and Korjakow, Tim and Benjamin, Jesse Josua},
title = {Towards Supporting Interpretability of Clustering Results with Uncertainty Visualization},
booktitle = {EuroVis Workshop on Trustworthy Visualization (TrustVis)},
year = {2019},
editor = {Kosara, Robert and Lawonn, Kai and Linsen, Lars and Smit, Noeska},
series = {TrustVis19},
address = {Geneve},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
doi = {10.2312/trvis.20191183},
language = {Englisch}
}