Defining insight for visual analytics

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 14-17

  Chang, Remco ^a   Ziemkiewicz, Caroline ^a   Green, Tera Marie ^b   Ribarsky, William ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive science; Communities; Data mining; Insight; Probability density function; Problem solving; Temporal lobe; Visual analytics; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMMUNITIES; INSIGHT; PROBLEM-SOLVING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 63149146669     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2009.22     Document Type: Article

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