IPM — A framework for visual sense making VAST 2014 mini-challenge 1

Analysts are increasingly drowning in a flood of information. KBSI has addressed this challenge through the Intelligence Product Mosaic™ (IPM) analysis, visualization, and reporting tool that exploits the cognitive strength of analysts and enables them to discover information intuitively and quickly. This article provides an overview of the IPM analytic process and the visualizations that were used to enable better end user understanding of the information derived from multi-source text data. The main benefits of the IPM tool described in this paper include (i) significant reductions in ‘data-to-decision’ time through the use of semantic and collaborative visual analytics techniques and (ii) significant increases in the ability to exploit information and knowledge embedded within data through the use of semantic methods.