Inking Your Insights - Investigating Digital Externalization Behaviors During Data Analysis

Inking Your Insights - Investigating Digital Externalization Behaviors During Data Analysis

Explore a conference talk examining how people externalize thoughts during data analysis. Investigate types of externalizations used across different analysis stages through two exploratory studies. Learn about VoyagerNote, a visualization system supporting text annotations, and VoyagerInk, which enables free-form digital pen input and linking between visualizations and externalizations. Discover key findings on annotation practices, graphical externalization creation, and revisitation of linked externalizations. Gain insights into design implications for data analysis tools based on observed externalization behaviors.