PNNL conference to discuss visual analytics

Submitted by Faith Henry
Phone: 7253
07/01/05

The UAF School of Management is hosting the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) conference Thursday, July 7. This first annual event will take place in room 401 and 501 of the IARC Building, from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Buck Sharpton, and Wayne Marr have teamed up to organize a day long working session with PNNL and the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) where PNNL can present their needs, learn where UAF might be able to help, and to present research summaries of faculty whose current research overlaps with the goals of the NVAC. Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interface. People utilize visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information and derive insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous, and often conflicting data; detect the expected and discover the unexpected, provide timely, defensible, and understandable assessments; and communicate assessment effectively for action.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chartered the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) in 2004. A major objective for NVAC is to define a five-year research and development agenda for visual analytics to address the most pressing needs for research and development to facilitate advanced analytical insights.

Please contact Faith Henry, UAF School of Management at 474-7253, faith.henry@uaf.edu, or Johanna Geml, 474-7119, fsjg8@uaf.edu for more information.