Mining Travel Data with a Visualiser

The rapid advances of mapping technology have provided new challenges to the KDD communities in exploiting its potential for visual data mining on spatial data. This paper discusses the issue of integrating this technology with data mining methods to provide an interactive environment for exploratory data analysis. We demonstrate our ideas by building highly interactive interfaces that integrate these tools together to enable collaboration between human experts and the system in the process of mining travel data. More specifically, we describe a travel visualiser and the role it plays in the knowledge discovery process.