Be the Data is an embodied approach to visual analytics  designed for teaching abstract data analytics concepts to students. In particular, it addresses the problem of exploring alternative projections of high-dimensional data points using interactive dimension reduction techniques. In Be the Data, each student in a physical space, embodies a data point in a dataset. […]

This article discusses two applications of propagation-based concepts for predictive analytics:  marrying epidemiological models with statistical topic models to tease out user phases for better flu-trends prediction, and using propagation-based models to generatively model estimates of malware attacks.