ISSN 2079-3537      

 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Scientific Visualization, 2019, volume 11, number 5, pages 46 - 55, DOI: 10.26583/sv.11.5.05

Visual analytics and its use in the NRNU MEPhI “Scientific Visualization” laboratory activities

Authors: V.V. Pilyugin1,A, I. Milman2,B

A National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russian Federation

B Individual researcher, USA

1 ORCID: 0000-0001-8648-1690, VVPilyugin@mephi.ru

2 ORCID: 0000-0001-9705-9401, Igal.Milman@gmail.com

 

Abstract

The article discusses visual analytics, which, according to J. Thomas, is understood as the solution of problems of data analysis using a facilitating interactive visual interface. Today, visual analytics is widely used in various fields — in research, design, management and others, due to the well-known predisposition of people to spatial thinking. Despite the wide usage, according to the authors, the theoretical aspects of visual analytics are not well developed at present, which is certainly a limiting factor in the development of visual analytics tools and its effective use in practice. It is declared in the article, that one of the most common of the forms of visual analytics is solution of data analysis problems using the visualization method. The visualization method is described in details and a number of works done by the “Scientific Visualization” laboratory NRNU MEPhI in this area are presented as an example of usage of the visualization method. The works were performed in different subject areas from physics to finance and monitoring.

 

Keywords: Visual analytics, data analysis, visualization method, modeling.