Yap Xiong's List: Visual Analytics (Academic)

• acquire clues and connect small bits of evidence to uncover larger plans, stories, or narratives
• "put the pieces together" and formulate a well-supported hypothesis about actions that may occur in the future
• visual analytics system to help analysts better assess, analyze, and make sense of such document collections
• more timely and accurate understandings
• igsaw essentially acts as a visual index onto the document collection
• The multitude of views in the system makes a mutliple monitor computer like this desirable for analysis.

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• envisioning data and reasoning from evidence
• grounded on good evidence