Multiple View Framework for Highly Structured Data

At the Department of Child and Adolescent§Neuropsychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, a§psychotherapeutic study is taking place, where§alternative (cognitive behavioural) therapeutic§processes §of anorectic girls are analysed. Within that study a§huge amount of time-oriented data is collected, §which need to be synchronized according to different§constraints to be comparable. §Classical statistical methods are not applicable in§the absence of concrete hypotheses and can §hardly capture the complex process of therapeutic§interventions. §In this master thesis a multiple view framework with§a powerful data preprocessing part is designed. §The data preparation provides filtering, aggregation§of values with functions and the conflation of §records with different dates of measurement. The§framework is implemented in a tool called LinkVis §which visualizes the data with Chernoff faces, scatter§plots and parallel coordinates. §The scenario-based evaluation demonstrates the power§of the LinkVis tool on real world problems §and shows the data complexity. The tool is still a§prototype and it needs further improvements. At the Department of Child and Adolescent§Neuropsychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, a§psychotherapeutic study is taking place, where§alternative (cognitive behavioural) therapeuticprocesses §of anorectic girls are analysed. Within that study a§huge amount of time-oriented data is collected, §which need to be synchronized according to different§constraints to be comparable. §Classical statistical methods are not applicable in§the absence of concrete hypotheses and can §hardly capture the complex process of therapeutic§interventions. §In this master thesis a multiple view framework with§a powerful data preprocessing part is designed. §The data preparation provides filtering, aggregation§of values with functions and the conflation of §records with different dates of measurement. The§framework is implemented in a tool called LinkVis §which visualizes the data with Chernoff faces, scatter§plots and parallel coordinates. §The scenario-based evaluation demonstrates the power§of the LinkVis tool on real world problems §and shows the data complexity. The tool is still a§prototype and it needs further improvements.