Wang Mingjun, Pan Qiaoming, Liu Zhen, Chen Wei. Survey of visualization data cleaning[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2015, 20(4): 468-482. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20150402.
Many issues still exist in data cleaning despite extensive studies on this method. With visual interface and visualization
visual data cleaning has become one of the most important data cleaning methods. This study describes existing data quality problems and visual data cleaning processes
reviews state-of-the-art visual data cleaning methods (including sources
categories of data quality issues
and visual data cleaning methods)
and summarizes the challenges and opportunities associated with visual data cleaning problems. Data cleaning techniques are related to specific data quality issues. Thus
this study examines different data quality problems to summarize and review previous works on visual data cleaning. Based on data quality issues
visual cleaning methods are summarized as direct visual cleaning
visual missing data
visual uncertainty data
visual data transformation
and data cleaning resource sharing. Challenges and further research directions are surveyed according to different data quality issues. We introduce and provide an overview of visual data cleaning problems
as well as highlight research directions of visual data cleaning.