I am doing research on the major advancements in the field of visual analytics.
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A good overview of the major achievements in visual analytics is given in
J. Dill, R. Earnshaw, D. Kasik, J. Vince, P.C. Wong, Eds., Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualizaiton, Springer, 2012:
http://www.spatialcapability.com/Library/Expanding%20the%20Frontiers%20of%20Visual%20Analytics%20and%20Visualization.pdf
Achievements:
Protein disorder prediction. Visual analytics approach (ch. 10, starting on page 163).
Spatial-temporal multivariate statistics. Using visual analytics in story telling about multivariate statistics (ch. 11, starting on page 175).
Time-based collections: Building know about about time-based collections (ch. 9, starting on page 149),
Temporal data sets. Shape identification (ch. 17, starting on page 305).
Task animation and virtual reality. Geometry of object manipulation (ch. 18, starting on page 339).
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