Introduction

  • Authors:
  • Daniel A. Keim;Joern Schneidewind

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter - Special issue on visual analytics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The information overload is a well-known phenomenon of the information age, since due to the progress in computer power and storage capacity over the last decades, data is produced at an incredible rate, and our ability to collect and store these data is increasing at a faster rate than our ability to analyze it. But, the analysis of these massive, typically messy and inconsistent, volumes of data is crucial in many application domains. For decision makers, analysts or emergency response teams it is an essential task to rapidly extract relevant information from the flood of data.