Emerging Visual Literacy through Enactments by Visual Analytics and Students

Visual Analytics and Storytelling through Video

This paper supplements a video clip submitted to the Video Track of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2005. The original video submission applies a two-way storytelling approach to demonstrate the visual analytics capabilities of a new visualization technique. The paper presents our video production philosophy, describes the plot of the video, explains the rationale behind the plot, a...

Visual Literacy and Visual Culture

Familiarity with specific images or sets of images plays a role in a culture's visual heritage. Two questions can be asked about this type of visual literacy: Is this a type of knowledge that is worth building into the formal educational curriculum of our schools? What are the educational implications of visual literacy? There is a three-part educational rationale to these questions. First, kno...

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Accelerating Translational Insights through Visual Analytics

The exponential growth of biomedical data related to complex diseases such as asthma and Alzheimer’s far exceeds our cognitive abilities to comprehend it for tasks such as biomarker discovery, pathway identification, and molecular-based phenotyping. Here we begin by discussing the theoretical foundations for the emerging field of visual analytics, with a focus on the cognitive and task-based mo...

Big data exploration through visual analytics

SAS Visual Analytics Explorer is an advanced data visualization and exploratory data analysis application that is a component of the SAS Visual Analytics solution. It excels at handling big data problems like the VAST challenge. With a wide range of visual analytics features and the ability to scale to massive datasets, SAS Visual Analytics Explorer enables analysts to find patterns and relatio...