From Dipsy-Doodle to Streaming Motions: Changes in Representation in the Analysis of Visual Scientific Data
Susan Bell Trickett, Wai‐Tat Fu, Chrisitan D. Schunn, J. Gregory Trafton · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2000
This paper investigates the change in scientists' representation of phenomena of interest during the exploratory analysis of visual data.The scientists initially represented expected findings in formal, scientific terms, whereas they represented anomalies in informal terms.Over time, these representations shifted from informal to formal.We propose that this shift in representation is the result of an increased understanding of the individual phenomena, rather than of greater understanding of the data at a global level.