What is Visual Analytics? Part II

From your FODAVA leadership team after
visiting NVAC
That visualization and data analysis are not by themselves the final
result or the purpose of VA, but rather it is an integrated part of iterative
analytic process
The most interesting parts were the interplay between the analysts and
the tool builders, which made it clear that neither the data analytics part,
nor the viz part, could do it alone…
So data and visual analytics is not just a disjoint union of data analytics
and visualization. Rather it involves an iterative and interaction process
of computer reasoning and visualization based on human reasoning
We think the three words, “Iterative, Interactive, and Integrative are
important”.
I would like to add Engaging, Enlightening, and Expressive
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Visual analytics is not a static map
Visual analytics is not information retrieval
Visual analytics in not data mining
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Visualization and Analytics Centers
Alaska
Pacific
Rim
Hawaii
Canada
RVAC
A Partnership with Academia,
Industry, Government Laboratories
University of Washington
RVAC
Penn. State
Drexel University
NY/NJ Port Authority
Emergency Op Center
Consortium
Scholars
IVAC
IDS-UAC
IDS-UAC
Univ. of Illinois
University of Pittsburgh
Europe
Australia
RVAC
Stanford
University
New
Zealand
IDS-UAC, Rutgers Univ.
GVACs
DHS
NSF
RVAC
IDS-UAC
University of
Southern California
Detecting the Expected -Discovering the UnexpectedTM
Purdue University
Indiana Univ.
School
of Medicine
RVAC
Univ. of North
Carolina Charlotte,
Georgia Tech
Bank of America
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Analytic Cycle
Project Map
Visual Analytics
Centers and Programs
March 2008 Compendium
SIMULATION
UW2: JITC3, AR responders
UW1: RimSim, Simulation
Key
NV: NVAC/PNNL
PS: Penn State
PD: Purdue
SF: Stanford
UG: UNCC/GT
UW: U. of Washington
IL: U. of Illinous
PT: U. of Pittsburg
RU: Rutgers
US: USC
DATA BASE
TEMPORAL
UC3: Information Store
FINANCE
UG7: Financial Analytics
PD13:Temporal Disease Surv.
SF3: Scalable Temporal Databases
SENSOR
SURVEILLANCE
PD8: Surveillance:video
PD9: Smart Video Surv.
PS10: Geo NewsWire
MOBILE
RU7: Nuclear Sensor Detection
RU6: Inspection Algorithms
RU9: Entropy Bio-surveillance
PD4: Mobile CCI
NV5: SRS-Mobile
PD6: In-Field Mobile
ANIMAL AND HUMAN HEALTH
Projects are listed once, while they often could
be in multiple places
Vertical order has no implications
e.g. Geospatial supports National Missions
MULTIMEDIA
HETEROGENOUS/IR
NV17: Audio
NV14: Synthesis
PD11: Zoonotic Disease Spread
UG8: ResultMaps
SF2: Heterogenous Info Spaces
IL1: Search Paradigms, IR
CYBER
IL4: Deep Web Analytics
RU1: WEB/Virtual Communities
SF1: Scalable Transactional Analytics
GEOSPATIAL
GEOSPATIAL/IMAGE
PD12: Animal Health PS8: Health GeoJunction
UG4: Multimedia Analytics
CYBER
PS12: GeoViz Toolkit
PS11: Improvise
PS13: CiteSpace
PS9: Visual Computation
PS1: Geo-Knowledge IL6: Image Analytics
UC1: Geospatial Multiple Media
IMAGE/VIDEO
SF5: IRIS Scalable Network Security
PD14: Network Flow Security
PS15: ConceptVista
PS7: Geo-Info Retrieval
OUTREACH AND EDUCATION
NV4: Education
RU11: New Jersey Outreach
NV1: Consortium
RU12: K-12 Education
GRAPH AND REASONING
UG5: Image/Video Theme/Temporal Analytics
PD15: Education Initiative
SF4: Perceptual Efficiency
RU13: Undergraduates
RU10: Semantic Graphs
RU5: Lab for Port Security
RU3: Learning Decision Making
UG9: Digital Library
GRAPH AND REASONING
RU14: Summer Reconnect Conf
UC4: Context Based Trust
UG1: Reasoning Decision Making
IL8: Data Science Summer Inst. NV2: Conferences
PD10: Social Networks
NV9: Semantic Graphs
NV16: ProSPECT
IL5: Streams, link analytics
PS14: SemanticNetSA
UC5: E-mail Org and People Analytics
PRIVACY
UG2: STAB: Investigative Analytics
RU1: Universal Information Graphs
TEXT
PS2: Extraction
PS3: Fact Extraction
PD2: Privacy and Anonymized Data
PT2: Extraction Opinion PS5: Context Discovery
RU8: Privacy Preserving Models
IL3: Contextual Text Analytics
UC2: Patterns in Text
UC4: Context Based Trust
PT3: Information Extraction
PT1: Opinion/Sentiment Analytics
DATA INGEST
NV15: First Look
NV19: UPA
EVALUATION
PD1: Data Integration
NV7: Threat Stream Generator
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
NV13: Active Products
TEXT
PS6: TexPlorer
REGIONAL
NV6: Law Enforcement
PS16: NeoCities
UW3: Medical Supply Analytics
PD5: Personnel Tracking
PD3: Disaster Response
RU4: Law Enforcement, Stat. Graphics
PD7: Mobile: Emergency Response
UW4: Coast Guard Command VA
UG6: JIGSAW, Investigative Analytics
NV12: Un/Str Text Analytics
NATIONAL
PS4: FEMARepVIZ
NV11: Assessment Wall
NV8: Evaluation
IL7: Monitoring People/Events
UG3: Global Terrorism DB Analytics
NV10: Electric Power Grids
MATH/SEMANTIC FOUNDATIONS
NV18: IN-SPIRE
NV3: NSF-FODAVA
Data Ingest
Preparation
Data Representions &
Transformation
Visual Exploration
and Analytics
Dissemination and
Collaboration
Developed by Jim Thomas 5/12/08
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Spring/Fall Consortium and IEEE
VAST 2008
• Spring VAC Consortium: May 21-22, 2008 at APL,
JHU ---- Fall Nov 12, 13 in Richland Washington
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and
Technology (VAST) 2008
• http://conferences.computer.org/vast/vast2008/
• Columbus Ohio
• Oct 19-24, 2008
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NSF Partnership
MOU signed between DHS and NSF July 23, 2007
5 year agreement to forward basic science in visual
analytics
Larry Rosenblum, Leader of NSF Management Team
(Sankar Basu, Ephraim Glinnert, Leland Jamison, Tie Luo,
Larry Rosenblum, Maria Zemakova)
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Workshop Wednesday Sept. 17, 2008
0800 – 0900 Breakfast
0900 – 0945 FODAVA-Lead: Missions and Plans, Haesun Park (Georgia
Tech)
0945 – 1130 Grand Tour Visual Analytics (Thomas) with Demo IEEE VAST
student competition winner and discussion topic: refining Visual Analytics
Methods
1130 – 1245 Lunch (Klaus Building 1116)
1245 – 14:15 The Depth and Breadth of Visual Analytics (Ebert) with
discussion topic: Where can we have the most impact?
14:15 - 1545 Tools for Analytical Thinking about Complex Problems
(Rbarasky):, with discussion topic Developing analytic tools and methods for
real applications
1545 – 1600 Concluding Remarks
1600 Adjourn
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Conclusions
Visual Analytics is an opportunity worth
considering
Practice of Interdisciplinary Science is
required
Broadly applies to many aspects of society
For each of you:
The best is yet to come…
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Top Ten Challenges within
Visual Analytics
Human Information Discourse for Discovery—new
interaction paradigm based around cognitive
aspects of critical thinking
New visual paradigms that deal with scale, multitype, dynamic streaming temporal data flows
Data, Information and Knowledge Representation
Collaborative Predictive/Proactive Visual Analytics
Visual Analytic Method Capture and Reuse
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Top Ten Challenges within
Visual Analytics
Dissemination and Communication
Visual Temporal Analytics
Validation/verification with test datasets openly
available
Delivering short-term products while keeping the
long view
Interoperability interfaces and standards: multiple
VAC suites of tools
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