Visualização de Dados em Sistemas de Bases de Dados Relacional Agma Traina, Caetano Traina Jr., Elisângela Botelho, Maria Camila N. Barione, and Renato Bueno   View Paper (PDF)   Return to MINERAÇÃO DE DADOS Abstract Completely automated data analysis techniques often fail to fulfill their jobs, due to their inability to exploit the peripheral knowledge associated with the data. Human beings have a very good ability to interpret data represented in graphical format, and have the wisdom to recognize the associated knowledge. This paper address this dichotomy through a data visualization tool which displays, in a graphical manner, data stored in database relations, without relying on any kind of data summarization. Its objective is to include human beings in the main stream of knowledge data discovery (KDD) processes. The paper develops the conceptual framework which supports the data transformation that enables the visualization of relations composed by attributes of many data types (numbers, dates and texts). This is achieved through the mapping of this multidimensional data into a 3-dimensional space, applying a user-defined distance function. The paper shows some examples of utilizations with well-known datasets. Through a set of experiments it also shows that it is scalable to any database size, regarding both number of tuples and number of attributes. DiSC'02 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery