In this talk I will briefly discuss recent advances in outlier detection, with a focus on distance-based techniques and discuss possible future directions in the context of rank-driven interactive analysis and data-guided explanations and visualizations. Time permitting we will examine such techniques in the context of real world analysis of multi-modal data including time series, graphs, text ...

We use an in vivo methodology to investigate the responses of scientists to anomalies. Protocols of 3 scientists performing data analysis in 2 domains were analyzed. We found that the scientists noticed anomalies and paid more attention to them than to expected data. This attention took the form of proposing a hypothesis and then elaborating that hypothesis by reference to other data in the vis...

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