Re: [UAI] Graphical representation of CPTs in belief nets

From: Alexander Kozlov (alexvk@pacbell.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 08:45:25 PST

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    Rachel Cunningham wrote:

    > Hello all,
    >
    > I work for a company that's trying to put together a useful and
    > user-friendly (!) belief net application. This involves representing a great
    > deal of probabilistic information--a priori probabilities of nodes, actual
    > (current) probabilities of nodes, and conditional probability tables (CPTs)
    > representing relationships between nodes. There is also data entry
    > associated with all these values.
    >
    > Our research shows that the best existing applications use histograms to
    > show most of these things when it's easy, but that none have a friendly
    > interface for the entering or viewing of CPTs. Does anyone know of other
    > work that is being done on this problem? Any resources for graphical entry
    > of uncertain data in general? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

    You might want to look at the SGI MineSet product, the evidence visualizer in
    particular. You can download a free 30-day version from

    http://mineset.sgi.com.

    Also, you might want to look at the works of Ben Schneiderman from University of
    Maryland.

    http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil

    Alex Kozlov

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