Scale and complexity in visual analytics

Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-253

  Robertson, George ^a,f   Ebert, David ^b   Eick, Stephen ^c   Keim, Daniel ^d   Joy, Ken ^e  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SSS Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^e Davis   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytics; Scalability; Visual analytics; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TOOLS; ANALYTICS; BASIC SCIENCE; COMPLEXITY ISSUES; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; HUMAN ABILITIES; IMPEDANCE MISMATCH; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; PUBLIC SAFETY; REDUCED DATA; SCALABILITY ISSUE; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); SCALABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; VISUALIZATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 70349306613     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ivs.2009.23     Document Type: Article

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