User group analytics survey and research opportunities

B Omidvar-Tehrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User data can be acquired from various domains and is characterized by a combination of
demographics such as age and occupation, and user actions such as rating a movie or …

Flash points: Discovering exceptional pairwise behaviors in vote or rating data

A Belfodil, S Cazalens, P Lamarre… - Machine Learning and …, 2017 - Springer
We address the problem of discovering contexts that lead well-distinguished collections of
individuals to change their pairwise agreement wrt their usual one. For instance, in the …

Multi-objective Test Recommendation for Adaptive Learning

N Bouarour, I Benouaret, S Amer-Yahia - Transactions on Large-Scale …, 2024 - Springer
Upskilling is a fast-growing segment of the education economy. Yet, there is little algorithmic
work that focuses on crafting dedicated strategies to reach high-skill mastery. In this paper …

User group analytics: hypothesis generation and exploratory analysis of user data

B Omidvar-Tehrani, S Amer-Yahia, RM Borromeo - The VLDB Journal, 2019 - Springer
User data is becoming increasingly available in multiple domains ranging from the social
Web to retail store receipts. User data is described by user demographics (eg, age, gender …

Data pipelines for user group analytics

B Omidvar-Tehrani, S Amer-Yahia - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
User data is becoming increasingly available in various domains ranging from the social
Web to electronic patient health records (EHRs). User data is characterized by a …

DEvIANT: Discovering significant exceptional (dis-) agreement within groups

A Belfodil, W Duivesteijn, M Plantevit… - Machine Learning and …, 2020 - Springer
We strive to find contexts (ie, subgroups of entities) under which exceptional (dis-)
agreement occurs among a group of individuals, in any type of data featuring individuals …

Visual exploration of rating datasets and user groups

FC Zegarra, JCC Ipenza, B Omidvar-Tehrani… - Future Generation …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of rating datasets (ie, datasets containing user evaluations on
items such as products and services) constitutes a new opportunity in various applications …

Exploration of user groups in vexus

S Amer-Yahia, B Omidvar-Tehrani… - 2018 IEEE 34th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate VEXUS, an interactive visualization framework for exploring user data to
fulfill tasks such as finding a set of experts, forming discussion groups and analyzing …

Human factors in data science

S Amer-Yahia - 2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data Science (DS) has been shifting from libraries and stacks to usage and impact. While"
database thinking" is permeating all levels in a DS stack, the DS lifecycle can only be fully …

Adaptive Test Recommendation for Mastery Learning

N Bouarour, I Benouaret, C d'Ham… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We tackle the problem of recommending tests to learners to achieve upskilling. Our work is
grounded in two learning theories: mastery learning, an instructional strategy that guides …