Transcript Visual Analytics Education

Visual Analytics Education
VAST ‘06 Panel Discussion
Jim Foley
Georgia Tech
Some Questions about VA
Education
 VA is such a broad field…
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What are the key disciplines represented in VA?
What principles should guide curriculum development?
Should there be a VA graduate degree?
If so, should we expect everyone to have the same core set of
knowledge?
• If so, what?
• For MS?
• For PhD?
• If not, how do we develop the talent base?
• Ad hoc? Certificates? Minors?
Appeal to the HCI Mantra –
 People perform tasks with computers
 People
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Cognition, Perception
Knowledge Representation & Ontologies
Social Processes
Human Concerns in the use of Technology for Visual Analytics
 Tasks
• Analytical Processes
• Applications of Visual Analytics
• Domains
 Computers
• Data and Knowledge
• Visualizing Data, Information and Knowledge
• Software & Hardware for Visual Analytics Systems
Therefore A VA Professional
 Has basic understanding of People, Tasks and Computers
 Has expertise in at least one of the above
• Not likely to have deep expertise in all three
 Works well with VA Professionals with complementary
expertise
A Resource for VA Educators
 The Visual Analytics Digital Library
 http://vadl.cc.gatech.edu/