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As the rate in which data collection increases, an increasing burden is placed on analysts who are tasked with locating, analyzing and reporting on the mountains of disparate data readily available to them. Data visualization and analysis tools that were effective in handling simple tasks, such as generating charts and maps, are now being pushed beyond their capabilities and struggle to handle the increasingly complex data that is being captured today.
Although geographical, temporal and link data is often captured using today's data collection systems, this rich metadata is often hard to exploit with existing analytical tools and processes . While most tools focus on a specific dimension or view of one's data (i.e., geography or time), GeoTime's provides a holistic view, showing events and activities unfold over time. GeoTime is the only commercially available software tool for the 3D visual analysis of spatio-temporal data, combining the where, the when and the who. With its patented 3D Time Viewer, GeoTime is able to visualize data from a variety of sources in an interactive display, allowing the user to navigate the data in real-time for rapid visual discovery of patterns and behaviours.
Users are able to watch events and activities unfold over space and time with a fully functional timeline and animated display system. And GeoTime's integrated visual reporting system allows users to easily capture their analysis steps and discoveries, making report creation and publishing fast and efficient.
Specifically designed to enable analysts to visualize movements, communications and relationships over both space and time, the 3D Time Viewer simultaneously displays the geographical location and the time of events. The 3D Time Viewer presents an event's time attribute in the vertical dimension, creating a 3D representation of the data on top of a graphical map. These events are automatically linked together into trails when dealing with entities, showing their movement over time.
The 3D Time Viewer provides:
Moreover, a 2009 study found that for complex questions where the participants needed an overall understanding of a dataset, the GeoTime-type representation resulted in, on average, twice as fast response times. Users also noted it was intuitive, engaging and easy to understand. To read the entire study: An Evaluation of Space Time Cube Representation of Spatiotemporal Patterns Kristensson, P.O., et al, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, August, 2009.
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GeoTime 5.1 introduces GeoTime Networks, which adds a new 2D network graph view for linked and network data visualization. Links and nodes are displayed in a variety of layout methods and can be manipulated at will by the user. These 2D network graphs can then be sent over to GeoTime's 3D Time Viewer, displaying the temporal dimension of the data. Events and links are displayed over time, revealing patterns and behaviours not visible in 2D visualizations.
GeoTime's analytical capabilities go beyond visual analysis with a suite of dedicated pattern finding tools, including degrees of separation and connection paths between entities. These tools aide in the rapid discovery and analysis of connected events over time. Links between entities can represent communications, relationships, transactions, message logs, etc. and are visualized over time to reveal temporal patterns and behaviours.
GeoTime supports a wide variety of data formats and sources, with native plug-ins for both ESRI ArcGIS and Microsoft Excel. With GeoTime 5.1 comes support for ArcGIS 10, as well as for the popular GPX data format, supported by most GPS device vendors. GeoTime also provides live data and mapping services support for GeoRSS, ESRI ArcGIS and WMS services.
Data can also be loaded natively by GeoTime via a wide variety of file formats:
GeoTime can connect to live data feeds, enabling users to visualize the most up to date data available. GeoTime connects to live GeoRSS and RSS feeds, streaming data updates into GeoTime's 3D Time Viewer for visualization of up to date information.
GeoTime makes importing geotagged photos simple with the ability to import folders of photos, allowing users to easily add valuable location-relevant imagery to their analysis work.
GeoTime’s animation, charting, aggregation and built-in analysis tools rapidly expose patterns, connections and trends that help analysts to focus on relevant data subsets almost instantly.
GeoTime 5.1 introduces the new Stationary Finder tool to its suite of pattern finding tools for quickly locating periods in which entities are considered stationary. GeoTime has a host of analytical tools to help locate patterns and behaviours of interest, from clusters of events to meetings between entities over time.
GeoTime has built in reporting tools that analysts can use capture observations and discoveries made during analysis, making it easy to publish visual reports for distribution to all levels of the analytical and decision making teams.
GeoTime 5.1 expands the scope and depth of reporting with the ability to capture any 3D, 2D or GeoTime Network view of your data. Charts, timelines and network views can also be added to reports, providing additional visual elements to support observations and findings. Reports can include links to external documents and URLs, expanding the scope of reports prepared within GeoTime.
Using interactive presentation tools found within GeoTime, analysts can create visually compelling walk-throughs of the observations and insights collected during analysis.