Visual Analytics describes the art and science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. The goal of Visual Analytics is to stimulate analytical insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous, and often conflicting information; to detect the expected and to discover the unexpected; and to yield timely assessments with evidence and confidence levels. Visual analytic interfaces are based on cognitive and perceptual principles to support human information discourse using innovative interactive techniques and visual representations : http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg05/smartgraphics.html



The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization : http://www.vtk.org/



Themescape http://www.pnl.gov/news/1995/nws95-07.htm developed for the U.S. intelligence community, now used by http://www.aurigin.com/ to map patent domains.



PointMapper provides a flexible, low-cost, and light-weight approach to web mapping that allows web page authors to map locations of anything that interests them, and to integrate mapping into their pages : http://www.mapbureau.com/whatis.html



Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. : http://www.mappr.com/ Mappr Developer API at : http://www.mappr.com/about/api.phtml



This script may do more meaningful things when it can get bite-sized correlation data from the del.icio.us API, but for now the tags are just randomly juxtaposed, allowing you to draw your own meanings and revelations : http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name=map was an automatically recombinant memeplex brought to the Internet via a diagram from Matt Jones and a spare afternoon of Kevan Davis (whose brain looks like this) multiplying font size by number of entries per tag (?)



Looking at all the public photos tagged with map : http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:map,maps/tagmode:any/ (540 + 103 photos).



In partnership with Alberta Learning and Saskatchewan Learning, Historica-CN distributed more than 100,000 special edition 2005 Centennial Calendars to high school Canadian history students in Alberta and Saskatchewan to mark the centennial. : http://www.histori.ca/cncalendar.jsp



156 ideas submitted to Peace IdeaTrust : http://gocreate.com/Brainline/Peace/results.htm in response to challenge issued at http://gocreate.com/Brainline/Peace/chal.htm

1993 Declaration of Principles : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1682727.stm

Wall protest map : http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/3232522/



The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. : http://www.museumofbadart.org/



“A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” - William Shedd (1820-1894) American Theologian

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton, born in 1757.