VAW2009 workshop
The Visual Analytics Workshop 2009 will include a number of eminent speakers to discuss the problems associated with “data obesity” faced by analysts and decision makers in the area of security, intelligence and defence. How does one make sense of large multi-format, multi-sourced, loosely-coupled data sets, that contain unreliable, missing, ambiguous and out-of-sequence information? Visual analytics is one approach to this problem, and is the emerging science of making sense of large data sets, that through the use of interactive visualization and query through semantic extraction and data fusion technologies, supports the human analytic reasoning process.
In the Visual Analytics Workshop VAW-2009, we bring together expert operators from security and defence, and researchers in Visual Analytics from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, to describe the problem of making sense of such data, and to describe the science and potential that visual analytics has to offer:
- The US National Visual Analystics Centre (NVAC), and associated Regional VA Centers
- Visual Analytics UK (VAUK)
- The European FP7 VisMaster Network
- The Australian NICTA National Research Theme on “Making Sense of Data”
- The UN Centre for Advanced Visual Analytics CAVA, UN Office in Geneva.
Stakeholders:
- MoD (various organizations)
- Police (various organisations) and
- Industry (developers of software in this area).
In addition, the workshop is also intended to provide an environment for networking and communication between researchers and stakeholders, and to develop ideas and plans for UK/US collaborative projects and deployments.