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Title: Isn't It About Time?

Abstract

Time plays a key role in all aspects of the intelligence analysis process, from data ingest through analysis methods to the cognitive processes that create intelligence products; however, the concept of time is difficult to grasp and not yet fully understood. Today's analytic tools fall short of satisfying the needs of analysts; these tools do not significantly facilitate an analyst's cognitive process when assembling the pieces of a puzzle together since opportunities for analysts to exploit the time dimension of their data are curtailed by the implicit representation of time found in these tools and their visualizations. There is a need to revisit and understand how time plays a role. In this paper, we briefly discuss why time is hard, the need for visualizations and interactions to deal with time, and conclude with some thoughts about a temporal analytic discourse. Overall, time cannot be left as an afterthought when developing visualizations; time must instead be well represented and highly interactable.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
883685
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-49378
400904120; TRN: US200614%%691
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 26; Journal Issue: 3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; DIMENSIONS; TIME DEPENDENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; temporal analytics, temporal discourse, temporal visualizations and interactions

Citation Formats

Kuchar, Olga A, Hoeft, TJ J, Havre, Susan L, and Perrine, Kenneth A. Isn't It About Time?. United States: N. p., 2006. Web. doi:10.1109/MCG.2006.64.
Kuchar, Olga A, Hoeft, TJ J, Havre, Susan L, & Perrine, Kenneth A. Isn't It About Time?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.64
Kuchar, Olga A, Hoeft, TJ J, Havre, Susan L, and Perrine, Kenneth A. 2006. "Isn't It About Time?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.64.
@article{osti_883685,
title = {Isn't It About Time?},
author = {Kuchar, Olga A and Hoeft, TJ J and Havre, Susan L and Perrine, Kenneth A},
abstractNote = {Time plays a key role in all aspects of the intelligence analysis process, from data ingest through analysis methods to the cognitive processes that create intelligence products; however, the concept of time is difficult to grasp and not yet fully understood. Today's analytic tools fall short of satisfying the needs of analysts; these tools do not significantly facilitate an analyst's cognitive process when assembling the pieces of a puzzle together since opportunities for analysts to exploit the time dimension of their data are curtailed by the implicit representation of time found in these tools and their visualizations. There is a need to revisit and understand how time plays a role. In this paper, we briefly discuss why time is hard, the need for visualizations and interactions to deal with time, and conclude with some thoughts about a temporal analytic discourse. Overall, time cannot be left as an afterthought when developing visualizations; time must instead be well represented and highly interactable.},
doi = {10.1109/MCG.2006.64},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/883685}, journal = {IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
number = 3,
volume = 26,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006},
month = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006}
}