Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand.
-a Visual Information Seeking Mantra from Ben Shneiderman (2003)
In the second lesson, we will continue our tour of the geovisual analytics research landscape. However, we will shift our focus from developing a broad understanding of what GVA is and why it emerged as an important discipline to beginning to explore focused and unique use cases for applying GVA concepts and techniques. More specifically, you will engage in a series of readings concentrated on leveraging visual analytics for use cases involving text and time. Paralleling this reading activity, you should be investigating the GVA literature to identify a topic for the literature review assignment. I encourage you to spend the time necessary to pick a topic that is well-defined, relevant to GVA, and hopefully of interest to you. Also for this lesson, you will complete a hands-on exercise that introduces you to ArcGIS Insights, which is another GVA platform created by Esri.