Blobs, Dipsy-Doodles and Other Funky Things: Framework Anomalies in Exploratory Data Analysis
Susan Bell Trickett, J. Gregory Trafton, Christian Dieter Schunn · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2000
This study investigates the role of anomalies in the exploratory analysis of visual scientific data.We found that anomalies played a crucial role as two experts analyzed astronomical data.Not only did they pay significantly more attention to anomalies than expected phenomena, both immediately and over time, but also anomalies provided a framework within which they investigated the data.