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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Visualization

Visualization Review: Art, Politics and Dissent–Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America Review: Data Model Patterns–A Metadata Map Review: Handbook of Data Visualization (Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics) Review: Indexed Review: Information Visualization–Beyond the Horizon Review: slide:ology–The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations Review: The Digital Economy–Promise and Peril in the Age of …

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Definitions: Emerging Taxonomy for Collective Intelligence

A converstion is developing that will lead to a taxonomy for collective intelligence in all its forms, including public intelligence.  Below is a first effort by Tom Atlee that decisively corrects our preliminary conclusion that public intelligence was the umbrella term. Dear Robert, I guess I’m stuck on what seems to me the straight-forward simplicity …

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2008 Defense Science Board Report on Integrating Sensor-Collected Intelligence

There are five bottom-lines on remote sensors, this report addresses four of them: 1.  Managing sensors together adds value that cannot be achieved from advances in technology. 2.  Meta-tagging the data at source (something we recommended in 1988) enables a huge jump in both sensor processing and inter-sensor sense-making. 3.  All satellites are vulnerable to …

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2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea -- Full Text Online

I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem.  A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …

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