AVIZ

Like many other fields, the sciences are being transformed by our rapidly-increasing abilities to collect, manage and understand vast amounts of data. A 2003 study estimated that the amount of data produced in the world was increasing by 50% each year. The amount of information made available through Internet search engines has grown exponentially for the last decade, and major Web search engines currently index more than 9 billion documents. However, since our brains and sensory capacities have not changed in the meantime, gaining competitive advantage from all this data depends increasingly on the effectiveness with which we support human abilities to perceive, understand, and act on it.
AVIZ is a multidisciplinary project-team that seeks to improve analysis and visualization of large, complex datasets by tightly integrating analysis methods with interactive visualization.