%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Intelligent Information Systems %D 2014 %T The human is the loop: new directions for visual analytics %A Endert, Alex %A Hossain, M. Shahriar %A Ramakrishnan, Naren %A North, Chris %A Fiaux, Patrick %A Andrews, Christopher %K clustering %K Semantic interaction %K Spatialization %K Storytelling %K Visual Analytics %X 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. %B Journal of Intelligent Information Systems %I Springer US %V 43 %P 411-435 %R 10.1007/s10844-014-0304-9