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A new look at cartography

1734078 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:58:44 +0000

This website present various charts:

Radical Cartography

Free Academic Books

1734078 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:57:31 +0000

An interesting website with open access academic books:

Free Academic Books

Graphic Sociology

1734078 — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:55:41 +0000

Analyzing the visual presentation of social data, an interesting blog:

Visualization of Social Data

Predictive Analytics New York Conference: October, 2011

1734078 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:19:46 +0000

Click here to view the agenda at-a-glance. Predictive Analytics World (PAW) October 16-21, 2011 in New York, USA, program is the richest and most diverse yet, featuring over 40 sessions across 3 tracks: 1) All Audiences, 2) Expert/Practitioner and 3) Financial Services

Predictive Analytics London Conference: November, 2011

1734078 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:41:49 +0000

Click here to view the agenda at-a-glance. Predictive Analytics World (PAW) 30 November – 1 December, 2011 in London, UK is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought. PAW focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse’s mouth precisely how FT 500 analytics competitors and other top [...]

Scientific Visualization

1734078 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:46:17 +0000

Bunkspeed Shot processed image of Spectramap Rhino Virus (OBJ file)

We have used Bunkspeed Shot to create a photo realistic image of a Spectramap Biplot from Rhinovirus test data. A Spectramap Biplot visualizes the contrast between row items (common-cold virus strains) and column items (antiviral compounds) of a data table. The data was [...]

Spectramap CUDA Version

1734078 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:30 +0000

Currently, a Spectramap CUDA Version is under development for those users who need a high performance version. The focus is on the ability to analyse data tables with 100.000 cells or more. The first tests results are promising. On a Windows 7 system (ASUS GeForce 9600 GT Silent 512MB; Intel Core I7 2.8GHz 2.5 GT/s, [...]

Research subjects

1734078 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:43:59 +0000

Typically, visual analytics’ research subjects include query and reporting, decision support, analytical processing, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Visual analytics, like business intelligence, represents those systems that help companies understand what makes the corporation successful, and to help predict the future impact of current decisions. Applications are in the area of market analysis, customer [...]

Sense making and reasoning

1734078 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:40:16 +0000

Visual analytics is especially concerned with sense making and reasoning. It combines techniques from information visualization (that deals with abstract data structures) with techniques of data analysis, in particular transformation and decomposition, so that the research problem becomes manageable. Visual analytics is also an opportunity for the business community. It can facilitate evidence based [...]

Visual analytics defined

1734078 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:16:42 +0000

Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning, an outgrowth of the field’s information visualization and scientific visualization, made possible by interactive visual software interfaces. Visual analytics’ tools and techniques are used to: 1) synthesize information and derive insight from dynamic, ambiguous, and often conflicting data; 2) detect the expected and discover the unexpected; 3) provide timely, defensible, and understandable assessments; 4) formulate [...]