V-Analytics

formerly known as CommonGIS — A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Geospatial & Movement Data

This page was initially prepared for tutorials on Geospatial Visual Analytics by Natalia and Gennady Andrienko at the MODAP Summer School (Rhodos, August 2010) and GIScience conference (Zürich, September 2010).

Download & Installation
  1. Installation instructions: how_to_install-2015.pdf
    Revised: includes instructions for Mac users
  2. Java run-time environment and Java3D — see details in the installation instructions
  3. Software package (ver. 30.08.2019): Download ZIP
  4. Example data sets: data.zip (18.5 MB)
Tutorial Materials

Tutorial slides (2010 summer schools): VAmovement.pdf (12.7 MB)

Documentation

After downloading and installing the system, load help files via Help → Index (or Ctrl+I).
The root file is located at: .\help\english\Contents.htm

Additional documents:

Instruction Videos

How to load your own spatio-temporal and/or movement data into the system:

Interactive operations demo: Watch video (MP4)

Recommended Reading
  1. Natalia and Gennady Andrienko. Exploratory Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data. A Systematic Approach. Springer-Verlag, 2005. Chapter 1: Introduction.
    Available at geoanalytics.net/eda as "sample chapter"