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08 Visual Analytics

Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. It combines human and electronic data processing to synthesize information, detect expected and unexpected patterns, and effectively communicate insights for action. The visual analytics pipeline involves data collection, preprocessing, transformation, visualization, and human reasoning. Visual analytics focuses on making sense of user interactions to facilitate decision making, giving higher priority to data analytics than information visualization alone. It is a multidisciplinary field that draws from visualization, data management, data analysis, perception, interaction, and evaluation.

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08 Visual Analytics

Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. It combines human and electronic data processing to synthesize information, detect expected and unexpected patterns, and effectively communicate insights for action. The visual analytics pipeline involves data collection, preprocessing, transformation, visualization, and human reasoning. Visual analytics focuses on making sense of user interactions to facilitate decision making, giving higher priority to data analytics than information visualization alone. It is a multidisciplinary field that draws from visualization, data management, data analysis, perception, interaction, and evaluation.

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Visual Analytics

COMP7507
Visualization & Visual Analytics
Visual Analytics
• Visual analytics is the science of analytical
reasoning facilitated by interactive visual
interfaces.
• Fully-automatic search, filter and analysis only
work reliably for well-defined and well-
understood problems.
• Visual analytics solutions provide the technology
that combines the strengths of human and
electronic data processing.

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Visual Analytics
• Use tools and techniques that allow us to
– Synthesize information and derive insight from
massive, dynamic, ambiguous, conflicting data
– Detect the expected and discover the unexpected
– Provide timely, defensible, and understandable
assessments
– Communicate assessment effectively for action

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The Visual Analytics Pipeline

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Human Machine Integration

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VA vs. Information Visualization
• Information visualization
– Focuses on the process of producing views and
creating valuable interaction techniques for a given
class of data (e.g., networks, high dimensional data)
• Visual analytics
– Focuses on making sense of user interactions on the
data (e.g., repeated manipulation of a certain graphic
element) and further refining various parameters in
the system (e.g., identify components of interests
and place them at the center views) to facilitate the
decision making process
– Gives higher priority to data analytics
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A Multidisciplinary Field
• Visual analytics research is highly
interdisciplinary
– Visualization
– Data Management
– Data Analysis (aka Data Mining)
– Perception and Cognition
– Human-Computer Interaction
– Infrastructure and Evaluation

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Text Analytics with Jigsaw

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/
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Traffic Visual Analytics

[Z. Wang et al., “Visual Traffic Jam Analysis Based on Trajectory Data”, VAST 2013.]
https://vimeo.com/74411645

Visual Cause Analytics for Traffic Congestion, VIS 2020


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUrDrH3s78
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8827957 9
Soccer Stories

[Perin et al., “SoccerStories: A Kick-off for Visual Soccer Analysis”, VAST 2013.]
https://youtu.be/eFIorHSMiSQ
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References
• D. Keim, J. Kohlhammer, G. Ellis and F. Mansmann,
“Mastering the Information Age: Solving Problems with Visual
Analytics”, 2010.
• J. Thomas and K. Cook, “Illuminating the Path”, 2006.
• D. Keim, G. Andrienko, J.-D. Fekete, C. Görg, J.
Kohlhammer, G. Melançon, “Visual Analytics: Definition,
Process, and Challenges”, Information Visualization, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4950, 2008, pp 154-175.

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