Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154201 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1768
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper discusses the role of risk communication in macroprudential oversight and of visualization in risk communication. Beyond the soar in data availability and precision, the transition from firm-centric to system-wide supervision imposes vast data needs. Moreover, in addition to internal communication as in any organization, broad and effective external communication of timely information related to systemic risks is a key mandate of macroprudential supervisors. This further stresses the importance of simple representations of complex data. The present paper focuses on the background and theory of information visualization and visual analytics, as well as techniques within these fields, as potential means for risk communication. We define the task of visualization in risk communication, discuss the structure of macroprudential data, and review visualization techniques applied to systemic risk. We conclude that two essential, yet rare, features for supporting the analysis of big data and communication of risks are analytical visualizations and interactive interfaces. For visualizing the so-called macroprudential data cube, we provide the VisRisk platform with three modules: plots, maps and networks. While VisRisk is herein illustrated with five web-based interactive visualizations of systemic risk indicators and models, the platform enables and is open to the visualization of any data from the macroprudential data cube.
Subjects: 
analytical visualization
interactive visualization
macroprudential oversight
risk communication
VisRisk
visualization
JEL: 
G01
G15
F37
F38
F47
ISBN: 
978-92-899-1581-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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