Yesterday, Georgia Tech announced that it received a $3-million grant from Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation, to establish a visual and data analytics as a distinct research field for the first time and to recruit faculty and staff and develop guidelines for the field.
Researchers have high hopes for the nascent science, but they must first find an efficient way to mine the loads of raw data pumped from the Internet and sophisticated scientific instruments.
"We're looking at fundamental science, fundamental mathematics that in many ways are a mess of jumbled data," said John Stasko, a Georgia Tech professor of interactive computing. "We try to give them a structure, because as humans we make these inferences so much better when our data has structure."
For example, some researchers may use the science to respond to disease outbreaks by analyzing reports of medical ailments and drug purchases."
Of course a computer can go only so far. "Then an investigator needs to put this all together and connect the dots, find the coherent story," Stasko said
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