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General Discussions
The following areas of recommendation emerged from the workshop:
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Strategic |
• raise the status of visualization in the social sciences • start a change in culture towards accepting new tools • WWW has potential in decision making and data collection • provide national/local support • ensure people are aware of the special nature of social science data |
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Review |
• evaluate the graphics and visualization techniques available in commonly used statistics packages • report on current worldwide activity • review of techniques available and suitable • conduct a WWW search of what is around (SOSIG?) |
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Training and Awareness |
• show social scientists the potential benefits of using visual tools • run WWW, Java, VRML training • get image resources onto the WWW • provide glossary, acronyms — user updated • ensure there is high awareness of resources and services available now (SOSIG, Data Archive, QUALIDATA, AHDS, Knowledge Gallery etc) and encourage funding bodies to take account of the needs of social scientists in their service development. |
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Networking |
• commission case studies of good practice • bring people together who are working in disparate strand of research, e.g. fuzzy data • run an event on the Role of the Visual in a number of areas of social science • hold a CTI Managers Workshop on visualization in the social sciences • create an online journal |
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Development |
• develop techniques for the visualization of social science data, particularly temporal and spatio-temporal • develop suitable WWW based tools • develop add-ons for commonly used packages such as Excel |
In discussion it was agreed that priority should be placed on the following:
• an event on the "Role of the Visual" with parallel sessions on different areas of social science should be held
• a WWW and paper resource should be developed to provide case studies and examples of the use of visual techniques in the social sciences
• undertaking a review of current activity — taking account of research and developments worldwide
• running an event for CTI Managers
• building WWW based resources
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