Original Article
Information Visualization (2009) 8, 302–308; doi:10.1057/ivs.2009.24
Visual analytics: Building a vibrant and resilient national science
This article is a product of a workshop on the Future of Visual Analytics, held in Washington, DC on 4 March, 2009. Workshop attendees included representatives from the visual analytics research community across government, industry and academia. The goal of the workshop, and the resulting papers, was to reflect on the first 5 years of the visual analytics enterprise and propose research challenges for the next 5 years. The article incorporates input from workshop attendees as well as from its authors.
Pak Chung Wong1 and Jim Thomas1
1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, K7-28 Richland, WA 99352, USA
Correspondence: Pak Chung Wong, E-mail: pak.wong@pnl.gov
Received 21 May 2009; Revised 7 July 2009; Accepted 8 July 2009.
Abstract
Five years after the science of visual analytics was formally established, we attempt to use two different studies to assess the current state of the community and evaluate the progress the community has made in the past few years. The first study involves a comparison analysis of intellectual and scholastic accomplishments recently made by the visual analytics community with two other visualization communities. The second study aims to measure the degree of community reach and internet penetration of visual-analytics-related resources. This article describes our efforts to harvest the study data, conduct analysis and make interpretations based on parallel comparisons with five other established computer science areas.
Keywords:
visual analytics, information visualization, data visualization, google
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