An Inductive Heterogeneous Graph Recommendation Model for High-Scoring Items Applied to Business Intelligence

Abstract

Business intelligence (BI), as a system for business data integration, processing, and analysis, is receiving increasing attention from enterprises. Data visualization is an important feature of BI, which allows users to visually observe the distribution and direction of data and assists them in making correct decisions. The core of this feature is visual analysis charts, which need to be pre-created and integrated into the dashboard by the chart makers, so there are situations where user needs cannot be accurately grasped. At the same time, there may be omissions in the work of users, and a method is needed to remind them. Introducing recommendation models into data visualization is a good solution; therefore, this paper proposes a recommendation model suitable for this type of scenario, which recommends high-scoring items (charts) to users. This model consists of a inductive heterogeneous graph recommendation algorithm with user preferences and a slow-acting collaborative filtering method. The experimental results in two datasets showed an improvement of 0.020/0.045, 0.083/0.019 and 0.076/0.023 in Hit, F-score, and NDCG compared to baselines, which proves that it is more suitable for data visualization requirements and other similar scenarios that require inductive recommendations based on user preferences.

Keywords

• business intelligence
• data visualization
• recommendation models
• heterogeneous graphs
• user preferences
• collaborative filtering