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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">IEEE VIS 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">http://ieeevis.org</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">**************************************************************************</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">VIS'14 Capstone Speaker: Barbara Tversky (Stanford/Columbia)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">**************************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />Workshop on Visualization for Predictive Analytics: Call For Participation</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />Co-Located with IEEE VIS'14 | Paris 9-14 Nov, 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://predictive-workshop.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">http://predictive-<wbr></wbr>workshop.github.io/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">SUBMISSION: Sep. 15, 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">PARTICIPATION: The workshop is open to all VIS 2014 attendees</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">FOR INQUIRIES: <a href="mailto:predva.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">predva.workshop@gmail.com</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What is the use of visualization in prediction? How do people use visualization in predictive modeling? How can we improve the state of the art in predictive visual analytics?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We invite the submissions of *short technical or position papers* (between 1-4 pages) to explore the use of visualization in prediction and showcase existing research.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">TECHNICAL PAPERS - May include, but are not limited to the following:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Novel Visual Analytics or Visualization Techniques</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How to assist predictive development, evaluation and communication</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Visual analytics techniques for predictive models such as regression and classification</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Visual analytics techniques for clustering</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Visual analytics techniques for high-dimensional data</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Interactive visualization for refining predictive models</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Applications and Case Studies</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Real-world problems and experiences from public sectors and industry</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Predictive visual analytics in business, technology, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, etc.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Predictive visual analytics applications in public sectors such as government, development, security, etc.</p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Theory/Methods/Modeling/<wbr></wbr>Evaluation</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Real and synthetic data sets and benchmarks</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Taxonomies of predictive tasks in visualization</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Evaluation and testing in predictive visual analytics</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">POSITION PAPERS - May include, but are not limited to, visionary ideas addressing topics such as:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* What's the use of visualization in prediction tasks?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can visualization help data scientists make sense of predictive models?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can end users be sure predictive models are made of domain-relevant features?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can visual analytics help researchers include their domain knowledge into the modeling process?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How do we build benchmark datasets and ground truth to objectively compare different predictive model visualizations?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* What are good and suitable processes to ensure usefulness of predictive models?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can we use visual analytics to “explain” patterns derived from predictive models?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can we use predictive models as discovery tools?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* How can visualization help modelers gain trust into their results?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Is visualization needed at all?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">* Where is the boundary between predictive, explanatory and exploratory analysis?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />See <a href="http://predictive-workshop.github.io/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://predictive-<wbr></wbr>workshop.github.io/</a> for more details.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.727272033691406px; 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