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The May 2010 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletteris ready and available for viewing. The Basic/Futures Research (BFR) Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

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FEATURED ARTICLE

Book Release: Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications

Konstanz Universitat, Germany

May 2010 brought the release of a new book, Interactive Data Visualization, co-authored by Matthew Ward, Georges Grinstein and Daniel Keim. In collaborating on this book, Ward, Grinstein and Keim provide their readers with the theory, details and tools necessary for building visualizations and systems for visualizing data. Unlike other books on these topics, Interactive Data Visualization focuses on the algorithmic and software engineering issues involved in building such visualizations and systems, and discuss visualization theory. This book covers the spectrum of data visualizations, including mathematical and statistical graphs, cartography for displaying geographic information, two-and three-dimensional scientific displays, and general techniques for information visualization.