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- Title
Information Guided Exploration of Scalar Values and Isocontours in Ensemble Datasets.
- Authors
Hazarika, Subhashis; Biswas, Ayan; Dutta, Soumya; Shen, Han-Wei
- Abstract
Uncertainty of scalar values in an ensemble dataset is often represented by the collection of their corresponding isocontours. Various techniques such as contour-boxplot, contour variability plot, glyphs and probabilistic marching-cubes have been proposed to analyze and visualize ensemble isocontours. All these techniques assume that a scalar value of interest is already known to the user. Not much work has been done in guiding users to select the scalar values for such uncertainty analysis. Moreover, analyzing and visualizing a large collection of ensemble isocontours for a selected scalar value has its own challenges. Interpreting the visualizations of such large collections of isocontours is also a difficult task. In this work, we propose a new information-theoretic approach towards addressing these issues. Using specific information measures that estimate the predictability and surprise of specific scalar values, we evaluate the overall uncertainty associated with all the scalar values in an ensemble system. This helps the scientist to understand the effects of uncertainty on different data features. To understand in finer details the contribution of individual members towards the uncertainty of the ensemble isocontours of a selected scalar value, we propose a conditional entropy based algorithm to quantify the individual contributions. This can help simplify analysis and visualization for systems with more members by identifying the members contributing the most towards overall uncertainty. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method by applying it on real-world datasets from material sciences, weather forecasting and ocean simulation experiments.
- Subjects
INFORMATION theory; WEATHER forecasting; DATA visualization; COMPUTER simulation; ESTIMATION theory
- Publication
Entropy, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 7, p540
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e20070540