Introduction

We have designed an exploratory data analysis tool that enables researchers at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) to investigate data collected by the organization's Occupant Satisfaction Survey. The tool displays visual representations of the survey data in a crosstab format. The user sets up the survey questions to be compared, and the resulting charts allow responses to questions between and within surveys to be evaluated. The ArchMiner interface was built using Java Swing components with charts generated by Visual Mining NetCharts Server, a commercial charting package. The backend is a multithreaded application written in Java using the JDBC to pull data from a Microsoft SQL Server database.