Building an EDA Assistant: A Progress Report

摘要

Since 1993 we have been working on a system to help people with exploratory data analysis (EDA). Aide, an Assistant for Intelligent Data Exploration, is a knowledge-based planning system that incrementally explores a dataset, guided by user directives and its own evaluation of indications in the data. Its plan library contains strategies for generating and interpreting indications in data, selecting techniques to build appropriate descriptions of data, carrying out relevant procedures, and combining individual results into a coherent larger picture. The system is mixed-initiative, autonomously pursuing high- and low-level goals while still allowing the user to inform or override its decisions.