Recommended Reading List
Introductory Movies:
Seminar Textbook: Illuminating the Path
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Week 4 Readings:
Re-read Illuminating the Path and submit first three page summaries
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Week 10 Readings:
Finish Psychology of Intelligence Analysis and integrate with Illuminating the Path and submit six page summaries for class credit
NVAC Visual Analytics Taxonomy
(see the Visual Analytics Digital Library)
Analytic Reasoning
analytical process
alternative futures analysis
real-time monitoring and warning analysis
situation assessment
determination of intent
decision support
analytic discourse
hypothesis-based analysis (hypothesis construction and testing)
argument construction
mixed initiative systems
culturally-aware analysis
convergent thinking
divergent thinking
data foraging
sense-making
uncertainty
modeling
knowledge representations for analytic reasoning artifacts
cognition
perception
cognitive shifts
focus of attention
collaborative reasoning
remote collaborative analysis
Visual Representations and Interactions to Support Reasoning
visual representation taxonomy
visual cognition
design principles
visual paradigms / metaphors for analysis
spatial representation
temporal representation
multi-level abstraction
scalable visual representations and interactions (multi-platform)
visual representation of large data spaces
visualization of uncertainty
visual representation of real-time data (including change detection)
situational awareness
visual representation of multi-type data
visual representation toolkits
multi-modal interactions
interaction theory
interaction techniques to support analysis
exploitation of new display technologies
exploitation of new interaction techniques
Data Representations and Transformations
numeric data representation
structured data representation
textual data representation
natural language processing
cultural/ethnographically informed data representation
combined statistical and natural language text representations
spatial data representation
temporal data representation
image data
video data
sensor data
graph and network data
ontologies
multi-scale data representations
multi-type data synthesis
representation of uncertainty and quality
dimensionality reduction
modeling and simulation
discrete mathematics
neural networks
real-time data representations
change detection algorithms
confidence assessment
Production, Presentation and Dissemination
Integrated note-taking and production with analysis
context-sensitive reporting
mobile analytics
active products (multi-layer communication products)
storytelling
shared real-time situational analysis
automated tools for visual report creation
visual metaphors for communication
Evaluation
evaluation infrastructure
task-based evaluation
evaluation metrics
Privacy and Security
security infrastructure
data anonymization
data minimization
privacy protection infrastructure
Architectures and Interoperability
interchange / interoperability standards
flexible architectures
Technology Insertion