Geospatial Visual Analytics

Workshop
@ GIScience (23 September 2008, Utah)
& Special issue of CaGIS (July 2009)

(provisional issue Vol.36 No.3)
Final Program, Accepted Abstracts, and Slides of Presentations

Session 1: Time in Geospatial Visual Analytics (events and movement)

09:00 - 10:30 Chair: Gennady Andrienko discussion topics (generalized) discussion topics for each paper
  • Development of a geovisual analytics environment for investigating archaeological events based upon the Space-time Cube
    by Otto Huisman, Irvin Feliciano Santiago, Menno-Jan Kraak, Bas Retsios (ITC)
    paper, slides
  • Contextualizing Syndromic Hotspots - A Visual Analytics Approach
    by Ross Maciejewski, Stephen Rudolph, George Tebbetts, David S. Ebert (Purdue University, PURVAC)
    paper, slides
  • Cross-dimensional Visual Queries for Interactive+Animated Analysis of Movement
    by Chris Weaver (GeoVISTA Center)
    paper, slides
  • A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data
    by Gennady Andrienko and Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS)
    paper, slides
  • A visual analytics approach to evaluate inference affordance from animated map displays
    by Sara Irina Fabrikant (Univ. Zurich), Stacy Rebich Hespanha, Daniel R. Montello, Gennady Andrienko, and Natalia Andrienko
    paper, slides

Session 2: Time in Geospatial Visual Analytics (spatial time-series data)

11:00 - 12:00 Chair: Menno-Jan Kraak discussion topics (generalized) discussion topics for each paper
  • Interacting with 4D oceanographic volume data using GeoAnalytics tools
    by Quan Ho, Mikael Jern (National Center for Visual Analytics NCVA, Linköping University, Sweden) - withdrawn
    paper
  • A Visual Approach to Data Mining Spatial and Temporal Change
    by Grant Fraley, Piotr Jankowski and Cristiano Giovando (San Diego State University)
    paper, slides
  • Geovisual analytical method for animated map
    by Jae-Seong Ahn (Korea Land Corporation), Hwahwan Kim (University of Georgia) - withdrawn
    paper
  • Interactive Exploration of Multi-granularity Spatial and Temporal Datacubes: Providing Computer-Assisted Geovisualization Support
    by Véronique Beaulieu and Yvan Bedard (Univ. Laval)
    paper, slides
  • Health GeoJunction: Geovisualization of news and scientific publications to support situation awareness
    by Michael Stryker, Ian Turton, Alan M.MacEachren (GeoVISTA Center)
    paper, slides

Session 3: Computational methods in Geospatial Visual Analytics (text analysis, clustering, statistics, database processing)

13:00 - 14:30 Chair: Natalia Andrienko discussion topics (generalized) discussion topics for each paper
  • Visualizing Unstructured Text Documents using Trees and Maps
    by Ian Turton, Alan M. MacEachren (GeoVISTA Center)
    paper, slides
  • Visual Analytics of Spatial Scan Statistic Results
    by Jin CHEN, Alan MacEachren (GeoVISTA center), Eugene Lengerich (Department of Public Health Sciences, PSU)
    paper, slides
  • An AMOEBA procedure for visualizing clusters
    by Marta Jankowska (San Diego State University), Jared Aldstadt (University at Buffalo), Arthur Getis, John Weeks, Grant Fraley
    paper, slides
  • North Atlantic Hurricane Trend Analysis using Parallel Coordinates and Statistical Techniques
    by Chad A. Steed, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and J. Edward Swan
    paper, slides
  • Streamlined Workflow for LargeScale Interactive Geographic Visual Analytics
    by Marc Kramis (Univ. Konstanz) and Cedric Gabathuler (Univ. Zurich)
    paper, slides

Session 4: Human-centered Geospatial Visual Analytics

15:00 - 16:30 Chair: Piotr Jankowski discussion topics (generalized) discussion topics for each paper
  • Evaluating the visual scanning efficiency of geovisualisation displays
    by Olivier Swienty (TU Munich), Tumasch Reichenbacher (Univ. Zurich)
    paper, slides
  • The Role of GeoSpatial Visual Analytics and Virtual Organizations in the Search for Solutions to Complex Public Policy Problems
    by Marc P. Armstrong, David A. Bennett, Shaowen Wang and Ningchuan Xiao
    paper, slides
  • GeoJabber: Finding Significant Analytic Events in Collaborative Visual Analysis Sessions
    by Frank Hardisty (GeoVISTA Center)
    paper, slides
  • Interactive Visualization of Oil Reservoir Data
    by Sang Yun Lee, Kwang-Wu Lee, Ulrich Neumann (University of Southern California)
    paper, slides
  • Visual Analytics Using Density Equalizing Geographic Distortion
    by Peter Bak, Daniel A. Keim, Matthias Schaefer, Andreas Stoffel, Itzhak Omer (Univ. Konstanz)
    paper, slides
Call for Papers & Deadlines

The workshop is a follow-up to the successful workshop on Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference. Selected papers from the previous workshop, including the Setting the research agenda paper, were published as a special issue of IJGIS, v.21(8), 2007.

The workshop supported by the Commission on GeoVisualization of the International Cartographic Association aims at bringing together researchers from relevant fields to address research issues of geospatial visual analytics in the multidisciplinary context of GI Science.

A big part of data that the modern society deals with has both spatial and temporal characteristics. Visualisation of spatial and temporal data traditionally belongs to the research area known as geographic visualisation, or geovisualisation. Geovisual Analytics (short for Geospatial Visual Analytics) extends geovisualisation research by enhancing purely visual and interactive methods with new possibilities provided by computational techniques such as data mining, statistics, and optimisation. Potential enhancements come also from developing methods to support analytical reasoning, argumentation, knowledge building, and knowledge communication.

The frontier research problems in Geovisual Analytics involve the scalability of tools and their usability. The goal of the workshop is to present the most advanced methods and applications of geovisual analytics, discuss problems and possible approaches to solving them, and define appropriate directions for further research.

Major scientific topics to be addressed:
- scalability - how to make visualisation suitable for huge data sets (e.g. with the help of database technologies and data mining);
- usability - how to fit the tools to the needs, abilities and conditions of different categories of users (for example, domain experts vs. decision makers);
- effectiveness - how to ensure the effectiveness of visual analytics tools and how to test and prove it;
- innovative visually driven methods of data analysis addressing the problems of scalability, usability, and effectiveness.

Challenging applications of geovisual analytics:
- decision support: - generation, evaluation and comparison of alternatives,
- accounting for uncertainty of decision recommendations,
- explanation, justification, and communication of results;
- education: - enhancing learning and knowledge transfer;
- scientific research: - acquiring new knowledge;
- collaboration: - supporting communication, cooperative problem solving and knowledge construction.

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or application reports in English. The authors are requested to stress the multidisciplinary character of their approaches and their relevance to the theme of the workshop. We encourage submissions presenting early stages of cutting-edge research and development, as well as submissions from PhD students.

Organizers and Guest Editors:
Gennady and Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS), Piotr Jankowski (San Diego State University), Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC)
ICA Commission on GeoVisualization: http://geoanalytics.net/ica

Submission and selection procedure:
March 3, 2008CFP announced
June 1, 2008Authors should submit extended abstracts Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and supplementary online materials are welcome.
The Program Committee will review the submitted extended abstracts and evaluate them according to the following criteria:
relevance to call; soundness of methodological approach; degree of novelty & innovation; progress demonstrated; potential impact; potential interest to the GeoVisualization and Visual Analytics communities.
June 30, 2008Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the workshop and notify authors.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published online at the workshop web site.
September 23, 2008Workshop at GIScience 2008
November 28, 2008Full papers for the special issue are submitted
January 30, 2009Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue.
February 28, 2009Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer’s comments.
July 2009Post-workshop special issue of CaGIS

Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko: gennady dot andrienko at iais dot fraunhofer dot de
Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVisualAnalytics08

Last updated: October 06, 2008.