Started to read Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics. The first thing that comes to my attention is that the goal of the volume is to develop an agenda that is SPECIFICALLY focused on vis analytics for the purpose of enhancing homeland security. I'm, then, forced to wonder how appropriate this particular agenda is for MY stated purpose - applying vis analytics to educational data. Whatever the case, Kelly Gaither's response, when I told her that I was considering this as one of the central texts for my study, was that this is ESSENTIAL reading. With that endorsement, I begin my review of this volume.
How about this statement of need:
"New methods are required that will allow the analyst to examine this massive, multi-dimensional, multi-source, time-varying information stream to make decisions in a time critical manner."
Here's a quote from page 5 that addresses my earlier stated concern:
"Although the agenda described herein is focused specifically on meeting homeland security challenges, the new capabilities created will have an impact on a wide variety of fields ranging from business to scientific research, in which understanding complex and dynamic information is important."
From page 9:
"interactions must be adaptable for use in platforms ranging from the large displays in emergency management control rooms to field-deployable handheld devices"
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