Interactive Exploration of Text Databases

With the increasing importance of text analytics in all disciplines, e.g., science, business, and social media analytics, it has become important to extract actionable insights from text in a timely manner. In this work, we take a close look at Interactive Data Exploration. We first introduce a novel interactive framework that allows social media analysts to tweak the text mining dashboards not just during its development stage, but also during the analytics process itself. Then we study the interactions between common users and the framework, and introduce a touch interface that help users to reach their search target in a efficient manner.