Visual analytics support for intelligence analysis

Computer

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 30-38

  Gorg, Carsten ^a   Kang, Youn Ah ^b   Liu, Zhicheng ^c   Stasko, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

information visualization; intelligence analysis; investigative analysis; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS; INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS; NEWS ARTICLES; OPEN SOURCES; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84883090549     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2013.76     Document Type: Article

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