Visual Analytics Team Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant
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Members of the Visual Analytics team include (from left) Xinran Hu, Chris North, Leanna House, Scotland Leman, Lauren Bradel, Jessica Zeitz Self, and Ian Crandell.
Big Data: Everyone wants to use it; but few can. A team of researchers at Virginia Tech is trying to change that.
In an effort to make Big Data analytics usable and accessible to nonspecialist, professional, and student users, the team is fusing human-computer interaction research with complex statistical methods to create something that is both scalable and interactive.