TY - JOUR T1 - The human is the loop: new directions for visual analytics JF - Journal of Intelligent Information Systems Y1 - 2014 A1 - Endert, Alex A1 - Hossain, M. Shahriar A1 - Ramakrishnan, Naren A1 - North, Chris A1 - Fiaux, Patrick A1 - Andrews, Christopher KW - clustering KW - Semantic interaction KW - Spatialization KW - Storytelling KW - Visual Analytics AB - Visual analytics is the science of marrying interactive visualizations and analytic algorithms to support exploratory knowledge discovery in large datasets. We argue for a shift from a ‘human in the loop’ philosophy for visual analytics to a ‘human is the loop’ viewpoint, where the focus is on recognizing analysts’ work processes, and seamlessly fitting analytics into that existing interactive process. We survey a range of projects that provide visual analytic support contextually in the sensemaking loop, and outline a research agenda along with future challenges. PB - Springer US VL - 43 ER -