Science of analytical reasoning

This article is a product of a workshop on the Future of Visual Analytics, held in Washington, DC on 4 March 2009. Workshop attendees included representatives from the visual analytics research community across government, industry and academia. The goal of the workshop, and the resulting articles, was to reflect on the first 5 years of the visual analytics enterprise and propose research challenges for the next 5 years. The article incorporates input from workshop attendees as well as from its authors.