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Visual Analytics: Definition, Process, and Challenges

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We are living in a world which faces a rapidly increasing amount of data to be dealt with on a daily basis. In the last decade, the steady improvement of data storage devices and means to create and collect data along the way influenced our way of dealing with information: Most of the time, data is stored without filtering and refinement for later use. Virtually every branch of industry or business, and any political or personal activity nowadays generate vast amounts of data. Making matters worse, the possibilities to collect and store data increase at a faster rate than our ability to use it for making decisions. However, in most applications, raw data has no value in itself; instead we want to extract the information contained in it.

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  • Visual Analytic
  • Analysis Task
  • Interaction Technique
  • Information Visualization
  • Knowledge Discovery Process

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

    Daniel Keim

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems(IAIS), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Gennady Andrienko

  3. INRIA, Université Paris-Sud, Bât 490, F-91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Jean-Daniel Fekete

  4. School of Interactive Computing & GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 5th St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0760, USA

    Carsten Görg

  5. Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Fraunhoferstraße 5, D-64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Jörn Kohlhammer

  6. INRIA Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest, CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI, Campus Université Bordeaux I, 351 Cours de la libération, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

    Guy Melançon

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    Keim, D., Andrienko, G., Fekete, JD., Görg, C., Kohlhammer, J., Melançon, G. (2008). Visual Analytics: Definition, Process, and Challenges. In: Kerren, A., Stasko, J.T., Fekete, JD., North, C. (eds) Information Visualization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70956-5_7

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