MEDLEY: Intent-based Recommendations to Support Dashboard Composition
Aditeya Pandey, Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur

TL;DR
MEDLEY is a system that simplifies dashboard creation by recommending view collections based on user-specified or inferred analytical intents, enhancing user workflow and reducing complexity.
Contribution
It introduces a mixed-initiative interface that recommends grouped visualizations tailored to specific analytical intents for easier dashboard composition.
Findings
System effectively supports various analytical intents.
Participants found MEDLEY's recommendations helpful for dashboard assembly.
Study highlights potential for integrating manual and automated dashboard design methods.
Abstract
Despite the ever-growing popularity of dashboards across a wide range of domains, their authoring still remains a tedious and complex process. Current tools offer considerable support for creating individual visualizations but provide limited support for discovering groups of visualizations that can be collectively useful for composing analytic dashboards. To address this problem, we present MEDLEY, a mixed-initiative interface that assists in dashboard composition by recommending dashboard collections (i.e., a logically grouped set of views and filtering widgets) that map to specific analytical intents. Users can specify dashboard intents (namely, measure analysis, change analysis, category analysis, or distribution analysis) explicitly through an input panel in the interface or implicitly by selecting data attributes and views of interest. The system recommends collections based on…
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TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Data Analysis with R · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
