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Lesson 2 Overview

Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand.

-a Visual Information Seeking Mantra from Ben Shneiderman (2003)

Welcome to Lesson 2!

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. 

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • generate a literature topic that is unique, narrowly focused, and clearly within the scope of GVA
  • provide informed feedback to peers on the relevancy of selected research topics in the context of GVA
  • compare and contrast GVA approaches to making sense of text
  • show an understanding of the role of time in GVA applications
  • demonstrate an understanding of/proficiency with ArcGIS Insights by engaging in a tutorial-based assignment
  • evaluate the ArcGIS Insights platform for usability and utility
  • based on an analysis of the platform, generate an idea for an improvement to the usability and utility of ArcGIS Insights

To Complete Lesson 2

  • Read all Lesson 2 module materials
  • Complete the assigned readings
  • Participate in the Discussion Forum
  • Complete the ArcGIS Lab
  • Submit your topic selection to the topic choice spreadsheet  
  • Participate in the Topic Choice Discussion Board