Jigsaw: Supporting investigative analysis through interactive visualization

Information Visualization

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-132

  Stasko, John ^a   Görg, Carsten ^a   Liu, Zhicheng ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Intelligence analysis; Investigative analysis; Multiple views; Sense making; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIONS (STRUCTURAL); COORDINATED VIEWS; IN ORDER; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; SENSE MAKING; SPECIAL EMPHASIS; TEXT DOCUMENTS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 44849090387     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500180     Document Type: Article

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