As a follow-up to the VisMaster project we have created a new home for the VisMaster community on

http://www.visual-analytics.eu

Since the project is officially finished, we will keep the current website for archival purposes and all new content will be posted to the new website. This gives us the opportunity to extend the community beyond the partners of the EU Coordinated Action and to have exciting content generated by new contributors.

The EU CORDIS site just released a news headline on VisMaster in different languages!

EuroVAST 2010 is the first international symposium on visual analytics science and technology held in Europe. The goal of the symposium is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains. [...]

The EuroVAST program will feature a number of invited speakers from research and industry as well as a poster program. Full papers related to Visual Analytics can be submitted to the Visual Analytics track of the EuroVis conference.EuroVAST is sponsored by the European Coordination Action “VisMaster: Visual Analytics – Mastering the Information Age” in cooperation with EuroGraphics.

An introduction to Network Visualization. What is possible? Check out the Video.

Visual Analytics is also a topic in German television. Check out the video.

Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Jörn Schneidewind and Hartmut Ziegler, Challenges in Visual Data Analysis, 2006, Information Visualization (IV 2006) ,Invited Paper, London, United Kingdom, Ieee Press, 2006, [bibtex]

@inproceedings{Keim-6,
  author = {Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Jörn Schneidewind and Hartmut Ziegler},
  title = {Challenges in Visual Data Analysis},
  month = {July},
  year = {2006},
  note = {Information Visualization (IV 2006) ,Invited Paper, London, United Kingdom, Ieee Press, 2006},
}

Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Jörn Schneidewind and Hartmut Ziegler and Jim Thomas, Visual Analytics: Scope and Challenges, 2008, Visual Data Mining: Theory, Techniques and Tools for Visual Analytics, Springer, Lecture Notes In Computer Science (lncs), [download], [bibtex]

@inproceedings{Keim-7,
  author = {Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Jörn Schneidewind and Hartmut Ziegler and Jim Thomas},
  title = {Visual Analytics: Scope and Challenges},
  month = {December},
  year = {2008},
  note = {Visual Data Mining: Theory, Techniques and Tools for Visual Analytics, Springer, Lecture Notes In Computer Science (lncs)},
}

Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Daniela Oelke and Hartmut Ziegler, Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations, 2008, Discovery Science,pp. 2-14, ISBN 978-3-540-88410-1., [download], [bibtex]

@inproceedings{Keim-5,
  author = {Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Daniela Oelke and Hartmut Ziegler},
  title = {Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations},
  month = {December},
  year = {2008},
  note = {Discovery Science,pp. 2-14, ISBN 978-3-540-88410-1.},
}

Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visual interfaces according to. Over the last decades data was produced at an incredible rate. However, the ability to collect and store this data is increasing at a faster rate than the ability to analyze it. While purely automatic or purely visual analysis methods [...]

The term Visual Analytics has been around for almost five years by now, but still there are on-going discussions about what it actually is and in particular what is new about it. The core of our view on Visual Analytics is the new enabling and accessible analytic reasoning interactions supported by the combination of automated [...]