Exploring Interpersonal Relationships in Historical Voting Records
Exploring Interpersonal Relationships in Historical Voting Records
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DOI：
10.1111/cgf.14824
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发表时间：
2023-06
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
G. Cantareira;Y. Xing;Nicholas Cole;Rita Borgo;Alfie Abdul-Rahman
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作者：
G. Cantareira;Y. Xing;Nicholas Cole;Rita Borgo;Alfie Abdul-Rahman
来自民主进程和宪法文本谈判的历史记录是一种复杂的数据类型，因为许多不同的元素不断相互作用：人、时间线、不同的提议文件、对这些文件的修改，以及批准或拒绝这些修改的投票。特别是，投票记录可以提供有关历史背景下重要人物之间关系的各种见解，例如随着时间的推移可以形成和解散的联盟以及行为不寻常的人。在本文中，我们提出了一个工具集，用于帮助用户探索来自宪法公约特定领域的投票记录中的关系。该工具集由两个元素组成：一个数据集可视化工具，它显示约定的整个时间轴，并允许用户通过降维来调查不同时刻的关系；一个人员可视化工具，它显示该约定中给定人员活动的细节，以帮助理解在数据集可视化工具中观察到的行为。我们讨论了我们的设计选择，以及这些元素中的每个工具如何实现我们的目标，以及在与领域专家进行的评估中如何感知它们。
Historical records from democratic processes and negotiation of constitutional texts are a complex type of data to navigate due to the many different elements that are constantly interacting with one another: people, timelines, different proposed documents, changes to such documents, and voting to approve or reject those changes. In particular, voting records can offer various insights about relationships between people of note in that historical context, such as alliances that can form and dissolve over time and people with unusual behavior. In this paper, we present a toolset developed to aid users in exploring relationships in voting records from a particular domain of constitutional conventions. The toolset consists of two elements: a dataset visualizer, which shows the entire timeline of a convention and allows users to investigate relationships at different moments in time via dimensionality reduction, and a person visualizer, which shows details of a given person's activity in that convention to aid in understanding the behavior observed in the dataset visualizer. We discuss our design choices and how each tool in those elements works towards our goals, and how they were perceived in an evaluation conducted with domain experts.