National Visualization and Analytics Center

VAC Views

In each issue of VAC Views, we will provide information about different visual analytics applications, outreach efforts including recent and upcoming conferences and workshops, and educational highlights. VAC Views has been created for the government leadership that will build programs around this enabling field; the research community from academia, industry and national laboratories; the industrial community who can transform some of this technology into their products; and the students who will help define our future.

We want to convey what is going on as this field of visual analytics emerges—not just the science and technology but also the opportunities for programs, information on how to get engaged, and emerging needs and requirements. We will also ask end users to express their critical needs in their terms. We want to promote collaboration from various disciplines and sectors. We want to collaborate with our many international partners—not only because of the enormous talents worldwide but also because intercultural analytics is a core part of the visual analytics agenda.

May 2009

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: Future of Visual Analytics; Taxonomy for Visual Analytics
  • 6 » VAC News: COE Announcement, Purdue and Rutgers
  • 8 » Research Highlights: Multimedia Visual Analytics; Technosocial Predictive Analytics; VAST Challenge 2008; Creating a 360° View of a Business
  • 16 » Education: Visual Analytics Curriculum; Mercyhurst College
  • 18 » Partnerships: What is VAC?; VAC Projects
Download VAC Views - May 2009 (PDF, 12MB)

November 2008

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: Cross-border Interoperability; Visual Analytics in Europe
  • 6 » VAC News: From Research to Reality: Visual Analytics Technology Transition
  • 8 » Research Highlights: Information Synthesis and Fusion; Nuance & Isis at US-CERT; Visual Analytics for Maritime Security; Future Point Systems’ Starlight™; First Look
  • 16 » Education: Standing at the Forefront of Visual Analytics Research; Inaugural Visual Analytics Summer Camp a Success
  • 18 » Partnerships: What is VAC?; VAC Projects
Download VAC Views - November 2008 (PDF, 2MB)

May 2008

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: Canadian Partnership; Visual Analytics at Boeing
  • 8 » VAC News: Fall 2007 VAC Consortium; News Briefs
  • 10 » Research Highlights: Active Products; Purdue University; FAZD; Enhancing Law Enforcement; Jigsaw
  • 20 » Education: StarLogo TNG
  • 22 » Partnerships: What is VAC?; VAC Projects
Download VAC Views - May 2008 (PDF, 3MB)

November 2007

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: National Science Foundation Partnering to Advance Data and Visual Analytics
  • 6 » VAC News: Spring VAC Consortium
  • 8 » Research Highlights: Geo-Visual Analytics; Global Terrorism Database; Electric Power Grids; WireVis; Assessment Wall; Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases; Text/Data Integration; Law Enforcement
  • 22 » Partnerships
Download VAC Views - November 2007 (PDF, 4MB)

February 2007

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: Mission-Critical Technology Suites; Disaster Response Life Cycle
  • 6 » VAC News: VAC Consortium
  • 8 » Research Highlights: Aiding Knowledge Discovery; Threat Stream Generator; Mobile Test Beds; Knowledge Integration; Flow Maps; RimSim
  • 20 » Education: Digital Library; 2006 Interns
  • 22 » Partnerships
Download VAC Views - February 2007 (PDF, 2MB)

2007 Communicator Award of Distinction The February 2007 issue of NVAC’s VAC Views periodical was awarded a 2007 Communicator Award of Distinction. The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals and has been honoring the best creative work in communications fields for over a decade. The program is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, which comprises professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative. and marketing firms. The Award of Distinction is presented for projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement.

July 2006

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  • 4 » Challenges and Viewpoints: Inside VACs
  • 6 » VAC News: VAC Consortium; Introducing the RVACs
  • 10 » Research Highlights: Scenario Analysis; Moving to Mobile; Visualizing Semantic Graphs
  • 16 » Education: Educating the Next Generation
  • 18 » Partnerships
Download VAC Views - July 2006 (PDF, 4MB)

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