In professional and everyday life are increasing amounts of abstract and highly structured data and information that will be analyzed and interpreted them. This is where Visual Analytics technologies to people in dealing with large and complex information structures. The basic idea of Visual Analytics is the integration of the outstanding capabilities of humans in dealing with visual sensations and the enormous automatic processing capabilities of computer systems. This is not about “nice pictures”, but automatic and interactive visual representations to understand complex issues and to acquire new knowledge to facilitate.

Possible application areas

Economic & Business Data
1. Business Intelligence
2. Market Analysis
3. Healthcare & Biotechnology
4. Patient data
5. Epidemiology
6. Genetics

Security & Risk Management
1. Disaster Management
2. Computer Networks
3. Traffic
4. Crime and combating terrorism
5. Fraud detection
6. Environment and Climate

Information Technologies
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