Vector-borne diseases pose a major public health threat. Combined, these diseases contribute significantly to illness and mortality worldwide and have an adverse impact on development and economic growth of nations. Public health stakeholders seeking to control and prevent these diseases are...

Visual analytics is widely used to explore data patterns and trends. This work leverages cancer data collected by World Health Organization (WHO) across a hundred of cancer registries worldwide. In this study, the authors present a visual analytics platform, IBM Watson Analytics, to explore the...

Through the fast development and intensification of the large volume of data via the internet, visual analytics (VA) comes out with the intention of visualizing multidimensional data in different ways, which reveals interesting information about the data, making them clearer and more...

Motivated by incongruences between today's complex data, problems and requirements and available methodological frameworks, we propose data quilting as a means of combining and presenting the analysis of multiple types of data to create a single cohesive deliverable. We introduce data quilting...

Understanding the nature and dynamics of conflicting opinions isa profound and challenging issue. In this paper we address severalaspects of the issue through a study of more than 3,000 Amazoncustomer reviews of the controversial bestseller The Da VinciCode, including 1,738 positive and 918...