Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization [Hardcover]

The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications. Visualization is concerned with exploring data and information graphically in such a way as to gain information from the data and determine significance. Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces.

Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization provides a review of the state of the art in computer graphics, visualization, and visual analytics by researchers and developers who are closely involved in pioneering the latest advances in the field. It is a unique presentation of multi-disciplinary aspects in visualization and visual analytics, architecture and displays, augmented reality, the use of color, user interfaces and cognitive aspects, and technology transfer. It provides readers with insights into the latest developments in areas such as new displays and new display processors, new collaboration technologies, the role of visual, multimedia, and multimodal user interfaces, visual analysis at extreme scale, and adaptive visualization.

Dedicated to the memory of leading exponent Jim Thomas, this volume includes contributions from a wealth of international experts who explore varied aspects of a discipline that becomes more important with every petabyte added to the worlds stored data.

List of Contributors.- Introduction  the Best is Yet to Come.- Part 1: Evolving a Vision.- An Illuminated Path: The Impact of the Work of Jim Thomas.- The Evolving Leadership Path of Visual Analytics.- Part 2: Visual Analytics and Visualization.- Visual Search and Analysis in Complex Information Spaces  Approaches and Research Challenges.- Dynamic Visual Analytics  Facing the Real-Time Challenge.- A Review of Uncertainty in Data Visualization.- How to Draw a Graph, lß