Places mentioned in this book

Google Book Search now adds a map of places mentioned in the book. Try War and Peace, or some other examples.

Casualties

Another flash based interactive infographic which combines a time line with geographic data - of US deaths in Iraq.

Swivel

This past month, the swivel phenomenon seems to be growing. The idea: people upload their spreadsheets, graph the data, and share it in a Web 2.0 kinda way.

See for example violent crime versus wine consumption.

Interesting things: no XML in sight - swivel imports .CSV files. Users search by the column headers (no semantics, etc.) See the caveats page for guidelines on importing.

See the video on this page for a more complex variant on the same theme.

If our data format was as simple could we do the same with ELP?

Visualization of Uncertain Information

I found a seminar series on visualizing uncertain information: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bms/visualization_title_page.html

The slides by David Harris were slanted at large quantities of unstructured data, although no solution seems in sight.

intelligence analysis background

This document http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/humancapital.pdf includes comments on the generation gap, courses on critical thinking, etc. It also suggests on page 12 that there will be quality standards for analytic products.

I think I've traced the course to http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2006hls/noftsinger.pdf.

These slides mention a web based tool (http://www.ai.sri.com/~seas/index.html) which is

... developed for intelligence analysts that records analytic reasoning and methods, supports collaborative analysis across contemporary and historical situations and analysts...

Some fun: what the world might look like in 2020 from a US intelligence persepective: http://www.foia.cia.gov/2020/2020.pdf