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Interface

Siren Windows and Tabs

Note

Siren has two types of windows: tools and view, which are presented below.

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Tools window

The Tools window is unique, it is the main siren window. It contains several tabs.

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  • The Entities tab contains the list of entities.
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Two tabs contain lists of variables.

  • The LHS Variables tab,
  • and the RHS Variables tab contain the list of left-hand side variables and right-hand side variables respectively.
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Three tabs contain lists of redescriptions.

  • The Redescriptions tab is the main list of redescriptions. Redescriptions are imported and exported to and from that list.
  • The Expansions tab lists redescriptions that have been generated by mining or extending queries.
  • The History tab lists all edits made to queries, allowing to undo changes.
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Finally,

  • the Log tab contains logging output generated by the mining algorithm.
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Tabs can be shown or hidden via the interface menu Windows ‣ Tabs.

The main means to manipulate variables or redescriptions, depending on which tab you are currently viewing, are available via the Edit menu and the contextual menu opened by right click.

List items can be enabled/disabled by checking/unchecking the corresponding box in the left column. All items in a list can be enabled/disabled simultaneously. Lists can be sorted based on the value of the different fields displayed by clicking on the column header.

Redescriptions can be cut, copied, and pasted from and to different positions in the lists and from one list to the other and vice-versa. All disabled redescriptions can be deleted at once.

View window

A view window allows to visualize a redescription, to edit it and launch mining and expansion. Several views of different types of the same redescription can be opened simultaneously. They are linked together an to the original redescription in the list so that edits and selections made in one view are reflected in the list and other views.

A View window can be opened with a double click on a variable or redescription in a list from the Tools window.

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Both queries can be edited using the text boxes. If the syntax of a query is incorrect, Siren will not be able to parse it and it will fall back on the previous correct query. Queries are parsed when ENTER is pressed, in order to avoid parsing error due to partial edits.

Redescriptions statistics are shown below the queries.

In case of projections, setting controls allow to set parameters and the data can be projected anew by clicking the Reproject button.

Sliders allow to set the opacity of disabled entities, as well as the level of details for parallel coordinates plots.

Expansion can be started by pressing the Expand button. The expansion will be delegated to a background process. It can be interrupted via the menu Process ‣ Stop expander XXX, where running task are listed. Redescriptions generated during the expansion will be appended to the list of redescriptions in the Expansions tab.

Views

If the tab contains redescriptions or variables the View menu will allow to open a view window to visualize the selected item.

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Process

The Process menu allows to start mining redescriptions and contains a list of running task and allows to interrupt any of them.

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Windows

The Windows menu contains a list of tabs and allows to show or hide any of them. It also contains a list of Views currently opened sorted by redescription, allowing to access any of them and close all at once.

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Help

The Help menu provides access to this help and to more information about Siren and licensing.

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