JIBC VACCINE Workshop - September 2010

In September 2010 the Justice Institute of British Columbia held a workshop centered on "visual analytics" in command and control interoperability environments for first responders.

Recently the JIBC became an international partner with Purdue University's, Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability. DHS views this Center's research and education in visualization as critical to the protection and security of America and her allies. The Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE) will focus on education, research, development, and deployment of interactive visual analytic environments for communicating and disseminating information and deriving insight from the massive data deluge.

Visual analytics is a relatively new science aimed at analytical reasoning that is facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. GIS is one example of visual analytics. People use visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information and derive insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous, and often conflicting data.

The amount of information gathered by public safety organizations on a day-to-day basis, as well as during a crisis, can be crushing if not managed correctly. The goal of visual analytics is to overcome this information overload and to create new possibilities for using available data and information. The key challenge is to intelligently combine visualization techniques and analytic algorithms in a way that keeps the public safety expert in the leading role of the decision making process.

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Education

Tags:

• visual analytics
• analysis
• JIBC
• justice institute of bc
• VACCINE
• homeland security