Illuminating the Path
The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics

Executive Summary CH5

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Production, Presentation, and Dissemination (Chapter 5)

Production, Presentation, and Dissemination of results are often the most-consuming part of analysis. It is the phase that technologists think of last but is the only part of the process that is visible to the consumers of analysis in emergency situations or in day-day analysis, technology could make the largest improvement in this part of the analysis process. Our goal is to bring our R&D efforts to bear so that we can greatly reduce the time it takes for analysis results to be shared with their audiences, while dramatically improving the effectiveness of this communication.

Production is the creation of materials that summarize the results of an analysis effort. Presentation is the packaging of those materials in a way that are meaningful to them. Dissemination is the process of sharing that information with the intended audience.

The production and presentation of reports requires the incorporation of design and rhetoric. Multiple homeland security audiences and the immediacy of their needs for analysis will spur the cooperation of visualization and graphic production developers as well as the development of rhetorical design capabilities within the workflow. The future holds the promise of immediate communication of well-analysis results in emerging and emergency situations in the homeland.

The panel recommends several actions to advance capabilities for production, presentation, and dissemination.

Recommendation

Develop methodology and tools that enable the capture of the analysis assessment, decision recommendations, and first responder actions into information packages. These packages must be tailored for each intended receiver and situation and permit expansion to show supporting evidence as needed.

No matter what the end information product, the need to describe it, link it to its sources, describe its level of certainty, and put it into the context of the intended user is a time-consuming task. Few scientific methods or tool suits support creation of the end product. This is a high-priority area for near-term investments.

Recommendation

Develop technologies that enable analysis to communicate what they know through the use of appropriate visual metaphor and accepted principles of reasoning and graphic representation. Create techniques that enable effective use of limited, mobile forms of technologies to support situation assessment by first responders. Support the need for effective public alerts with the production of a basic handbook for common methods for communication risks.

Emergency situations and the need for rapid, accurate communication for informed action by management, first responders, and the public bring to the forefront the need for analysis to effectively communicate what they know. Communications must facilitate teamwork that may include the public as current AMBER Alerts do. To motivate proper actions, the reasoning behind the results must be made as visible as the results themselves to decision makers.

Recommendation

Create visual analysis date structures, intermediate representations, and outputs that support seamless integration of tools so that date requests and acquisition, visual analysis, note-taking, presentation composition, and dissemination all take place within a cohesive environment that supports around-the-clock operation and provides robust privacy and security control.

The task of production can be accelerated and greatly enhanced in quality by a new science, methods, and tools to capture intermediate presentations of analysis, support mid-level assessments, and support note-taking, directly within the analytical reasoning processes. The framework for this must take into account security and privacy policies.

 


制作、展示和传播(第五章)

结果的产生、呈现和传播通常是分析中最耗费精力的部分。这是技术人员最后想到的阶段,但也是分析的消费者可以看到的过程的唯一部分。在紧急情况下或在日常分析中,技术可以在分析过程的这一部分中做出最大的改进。我们的目标是使我们的研发工作能够承担,这样我们就可以大大减少与他们的受众分享分析结果所需的时间,同时显著提高这种交流的有效性。

生产是对分析工作的结果进行总结的材料的创建。呈现就是以一种对他们有意义的方式包装这些材料。传播(dissemination)是与目标受众分享信息的过程。

报告的制作和呈现需要结合设计和修辞。多个国土安全受众和他们对分析的直接需求将刺激可视化和图形制作开发人员的合作,以及工作流程中修辞设计能力的发展。未来有希望在国内出现的紧急情况下立即通报井分析结果。

小组建议采取几项行动来提高制作、介绍和传播的能力。

建议

开发方法和工具,使分析、评估、决策建议和第一反应能够捕获到信息包中。这些包装必须针对每个预期的收件人和情况进行定制,并允许根据需要扩展以显示支持性证据。

无论最终的信息产品是什么,描述它、将它链接到它的来源、描述它的确定程度,并将它置于目标用户的上下文中,都是一项耗时的任务。很少有科学方法或工具适合支持最终产品的创建。这是近期投资的优先领域。

建议

开发技术,使分析人员能够通过使用适当的视觉隐喻和公认的推理原则和图形表示来传达他们所知道的内容。创造技术,使有限的移动形式的技术能够有效地使用,以支持第一响应者的情况评估。通过编写关于通信风险通用方法的基本手册,支持有效的公众警报需求。

紧急情况和需要快速、准确的沟通,以便管理层、急救人员和公众采取知情行动,这就需要进行分析,以便有效地沟通他们所知道的情况。沟通必须促进团队合作,可能包括公众,就像目前的安珀警报所做的那样。为了激励适当的行动,结果背后的原因必须像结果本身一样对决策者可见。

建议

创建支持工具无缝集成的可视化分析数据结构、中间表示和输出,以便数据请求和获取、可视化分析、记录、表示组合和传播都在一个内聚的环境中进行,该环境支持全天候操作,并提供健壮的隐私和安全控制。

生产任务可以通过新的科学、方法和工具来加速和大大提高质量,以捕获分析的中间表示,支持中级评估,并支持笔记记录,直接在分析推理过程中。这个框架必须考虑到安全和隐私策略。