DIVA: Data Intensive Visual Analytics - Provenance and Uncertainty in Human Terrain Analysis

数据密集型可视化分析可以通过帮助决策者在各种情况下快速做出明智和有效的决策来帮助解决数据泛滥问题。这个探索性项目将与DSTL密切合作，将DIVA应用于国防和安全应用。它将研究有效利用各种动态和不确定数据的视觉方法，这些数据来自多个经常相互冲突的来源。将制定方法来存储、交流和使用关于数据来源、质量和分析过程的元数据（可能存在冲突、不确定和混乱）。他们将是可转让的，并在运营和战略层面应用。我们汇集了一个团队，英国学者与互补的专业知识。来自米德尔塞克斯大学和伦敦的贡献者在开发创新和应用视觉分析解决方案以及支持这一活动的理论工作方面享有越来越高的国际声誉。拉夫堡大学的贡献者提供了真实的时间、恶劣环境和军事背景下的信息管理和分析经验。该团队将密切合作，建立和评估DIVA在人类地形分析领域的潜力。工作计划旨在确保学术界和DSTL同事之间的密切合作。围绕一系列参与性设计讲习班开展的短时间的协调一致的活动将导致快速的开发和评估。这些协调的协同活动的紧张时期将刺激随后的反思，并在迭代过程中对涉及DSTL的反馈做出反应。在12个月的时间里，一个连续的桥梁存在（一名研究员在两个地点工作）将支持和巩固这项工作。这些努力将解决新兴的学术VA社区所面临的关键研究问题：* 我们如何才能最好地支持分析师提供有关数据不确定性和出处的信息？这些因素是数据密集型系统中分析方法的基础，但许多问题仍未解决。* 我们如何捕捉、注释和解释分析过程？ 这样做将使我们能够重现分析过程，并支持沟通和协作分析。 * VA方法如何应用于关键应用领域？与DSTL的密切合作将确保学术发展立足于对国家安全至关重要的应用领域并获得其信息。计划中的活动将产生解决这些问题的模式，方法和原型，支持分析工作并展示DIVA在军事背景下的潜力。结果可能会在国防部和VA越来越多应用的更广泛学科中产生应用影响，包括科学、工业和政府中的重要数据密集型领域。调查结果将通过国家和国际学术会议、社交媒体、新闻稿和DSTL网络活动广泛传播。开发的软件和功能将通过知识共享许可证提供。沿着通过计划的研究获得的知识，这将被英国视觉分析社区使用。该项目利用现有的技能，设备和技术，提供了显着的价值，并具有较低的启动成本。所有参与者都在三个参与机构的充满活力和成功的研究小组中工作，无需招聘：伦敦城市大学伦敦（牵头），米德尔塞克斯大学和拉夫堡大学。活动方案包括24个月的研究时间超过12个月的时间，并符合在国际竞技场运作的世界级研究人员的时间表和工作量。所有人都致力于工作计划，这将有助于在所有情况下实现机构目标，并得到美国国家视觉分析中心的支持。

Data Intensive Visual Analytics can help address the data deluge by helping decision makers to rapidly reach informed and effective decisions in a range of situations.This exploratory project will apply DIVA to defence and security applications in close collaboration with DSTL. It will investigate visual methods for effectively utilising the kinds of dynamic and uncertain data that are emerging from multiple and frequently conflicting sources. Methods will be developed to store, communicate and use metadata about (potentially conflicting, uncertain and messy) data origins, quality and analytical process. They will be transferable and apply at operational and strategic levels.We draw together a team of UK academics with complimentary expertise. Contributors from Middlesex University and City University London have growing international reputations for developing innovative and applied visual analytics solutions and the theoretical work that supports this activity. Contributors from Loughborough University offer experience of information management and analysis in real time, harsh environments and the military context. The team will work closely to establish and evaluate the potential for DIVA in the area of Human Terrain Analysis.The programme of work is designed to ensure close engagement between academics and DSTL colleagues. Short bursts of concerted activity focusing around a series of participatory design workshops will result in rapid development and evaluation. These intense periods of coordinated co-located activity will stimulate subsequent reflection and respond to feedback involving DSTL in an iterative process. A continuous bridging presence over a 12 month elapsed period (one researcher working at two sites) will support and consolidate this work. These efforts will address critical research issues faced by the emerging academic VA community: * How can we best support analysts with information about data uncertainty and provenance? These factors underlie analytic approaches in data intensive systems yet many issues remain unresolved. * How can we capture, annotate and explain the analytic process? Doing so will enable us to reproduce the analytic process and support communication and collaborative analysis. * How do VA approaches apply in critical applications areas? Close collaboration with DSTL will ensure that academic developments are grounded in and informed by an applications domain that is vital to national security.The planned activity will produce schemas, methods and prototypes that address these questions, support analytical work and demonstrate DIVA potential in the military context.The results are likely to have application impact across MOD and in wider disciplines to which VA is being increasingly applied, including significant data intensive areas in science, industry and government. Findings will be communicated widely through national and international academic conferences, social media, press releases and at DSTL networking events. Software and functionality developed will be made available through a Creative Commons licence. Along with the knowledge derived through the planned research, this will be used by the UK Visual Analytics Community.The project offers significant value, using existing skills, equipment and technology, and has low start-up costs. No recruitment is necessary with all participants employed in dynamic and successful research groups at the three participating institutions: City University London (lead), Middlesex University and Loughborough University. The programme of activity involves 24 months of research time over 12 months elapsed time and fits in well with the schedules and workloads of world class researchers operating in the international arena. All are committed to the work plan, which will contribute to institutional objectives in all cases and is supported by the US National Visual Analytics Centre.