1. Introduction

This report details a project jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to produce a survey of computer graphics and visualisation tools in use in the Social Sciences.

• Several imperatives were identified to be addressed by the survey.

• To discover current visualisation practice in different subject areas across the social sciences

• To identify specific software packages in use together with the advantages and disadvantages of using these packages

• To relay current general and subject specific technological limitations

• To attempt to establish a dialog with software vendors to discuss how technological problems might be resolved

• To engender a debate amongst social scientists on current visualisation practice.

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