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VisMaster.eu portal moves to Visual-Analytics.eu

Mar 17th, 2011 | By | Category: News

As a follow-up to the VisMaster project we have created a new home for the VisMaster community on

http://www.visual-analytics.eu

Since the project is officially finished, we will keep the current website for archival purposes and all new content will be posted to the new website. This gives us the opportunity to extend the community beyond the partners of the EU Coordinated Action and to have exciting content generated by new contributors.



iVAC Newsletter January 2011

Mar 4th, 2011 | By | Category: iVAC, News

Attached is the January 2011 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletter. The Basic/Futures Research (BFR) Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies.

The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.



How satisfied are the public with local services? Using data visualization to explore trends and engage citizens

Feb 22nd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Articles, News

With the public sector facing unprecedented cutbacks, it’s increasingly important for local authorities to understand how satisfied their residents are with local services and engage them in the assessment of whether limited budgets are being spent in the right places. City University London’s giCentre has used the emerging field of data visualization to help Leicestershire [...]



CFP: IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization

Feb 15th, 2011 | By | Category: News

In many areas of science, simulations and experiments begin to generate many petabytes of data, with some sciences facing exabytes of data near term. Similarly, the collection of information about the Internet applications and users for a variety of purposes is generating only more data. Our ability to manage, mine, analyze, and visualize the data is fundamental to the knowledge discovery process. That is, the value of data at extreme scale can be fully realized only if we have an end-to-end solution, which demands a collective, inter-disciplinary effort to develop. [...]



DataMarket launches with international time series data

Feb 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Articles, News

Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched back in May with Icelandic data, but just a few days ago relaunched with data of the international variety. They tout 100 million time series datasets and 600 million facts. I’m not totally sure what that means (100 million lines, sets of [...]



SCCG 2011 – Call for Papers

Feb 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Conferences, News

This event is the oldes regular annual meeting of CG community in Central Europe. The spring conference attempts to cover interesting projects from computer graphics and image processing and their applications.

The philosophy of SCCG is to put together top experts with young researchers and to support a good communication channel for East-West exchange of prospective ideas. Young researchers are esp. encouraged to submit their work.



iVAC Newsletter December 2010

Feb 1st, 2011 | By | Category: iVAC, News

Attached is the December 2010 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletter. The Basic/Futures Research (BFR) Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies.

The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.



TAVA ’11 – Special Track on Theory and Applications of Visual Analytics

Jan 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Conferences, News

TAVA ’11 addresses theoretical advances and practical applications of Visual Analytics. This is the sixth event in a series of special tracks on visualization topics organized in conjunction with the annual I- KNOW conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. Former events included the KIV (Knowledge and Information Visualisation) special tracks since I-KNOW ’03 and the KVD (Knowledge Visualisation and Discovery) special tracks since I-KNOW ’06. The focus of TAVA ’11 on Visual Analytics reflects the increasing scientific importance and the growing practical relevance of this exciting new discipline.



VAST 2010 Best Paper: “Visual Readability Analysis”

Jan 12th, 2011 | By | Category: News

The Konstanz group presented a tool that is specifically designed to support a writer in revising a draft-version of a document. In addition to showing which paragraphs and sentences are difficult to read and understand, their VisRA tool assists the reader in understanding why this is the case. To reach that goal, the different aspects [...]



Visual Market Sector Analysis for Financial Time Series Data

Jan 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured Articles, News

The massive amount of financial data that originates from the stock markets generates large amounts of complex financial time series data of high interest. In their VAST 2010 paper, Ziegler and colleagues from the University of Konstanz, Germany introduce two techniques and applications that support the analysis of large amounts of financial time series data [...]