Temporal pattern mining

Data analysis has become an integral part in many economic fields. In this paper, we present several real-world applications occurring in the fields of automobile development and manufacturing, finance, and online communities. The given examples share one aspect in common: time. It is not only the fact to find patterns inside data volumes but also to identify them based on their temporal behaviour. We will give examples of dealing with different models of incorporating the temporal aspects. Furthermore some new results in the area of Visual Data Analysis are presented. These methods offer intuitive methods of guiding the user through the process of data and model inspection and assist in drawing conclusions with the help of meaningful graphical representations.