Model based interactive analysis of interwoven, imprecise narratives: VAST 2010 mini challenge 1 award: Outstanding interaction model

CZSaw [1] is a visual analytics tool for sense-making across entities, documents, and relations with a focus on supporting the analysis process. It uses a variety of flexible data visualizations to represent and explore networks of entities and relations from different perspectives. CZSaw supports clustering documents and entities into smaller groups to make sense of them and weave individual facts into a complete picture. CZSaw also provides entity refinement functions to support interactive data cleaning. Its dependency propagation mechanism speeds the analysis sensemaking loop by automatically synchronizing data and views, and propagating changes to the whole system.