Toward Supporting the Data Enthusiast : Unlocking the Potential of Data for Analysis

We present a vision for the next-generation of visual analytics services. We argue that these services should provide three related capabilities: (1) support visual and interactive data exploration as they do today, but also (2) suggest relevant data to enrich visualizations, and (3) facilitate the integration and cleaning of that data. Most importantly, they should provide all these capabilities seamlessly in the context of an uninterrupted data analysis cycle. We present the challenges and opportunities in building such next-generation visual analytics services.