Dimension Reduction for Visual Data Mining

We present a method for dimension reduction applied to visual data mining in order to reduce the user cognitive load due to the density of data to be visualized and mined. We use consensus theory to address this problem: the decision of a committee of experts (in our case existing attribute selection methods) is generally better than the decision of a single expert. We illustrate the choices operated for our algorithm and we explain the results. We compare successfully these results with those of two widely used methods in attribute selection, a filter based method (LVF) and a wrapper based method (Stepclass).