Social data analysis workshop
Fernanda Viégas, MARTIN P. WATTENBERG, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala · 2008
This workshop addresses a new online phenomenon: social data analysis, that is, collective analysis of data supported by social interaction. The recent democratization of data sources on the Internet--from mandated publication of government-generated data to scientific repositories of experimental data sets--has enabled a new kind of web site where users upload and collaboratively analyze the most varied sorts of data. So far, most of these sites have relied on visualization as an intrinsic part of their analytical arsenal. The goals of this workshop are to: