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Visual Analytics - An Interaction of Sight and Thought - JMP

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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,<br />

rains from the sky a meteoric shower<br />

<strong>of</strong> facts…they lie, unquestioned, uncombined.<br />

Wisdom enough to leach us <strong>of</strong> our ill<br />

is daily spun; but there exists no loom<br />

to weave it into a fabric.<br />

“Huntsman, What Quarry?”, 1939, Edna St. Vincent Millay<br />

The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay anticipated our situation today way back in 1939 when<br />

she wrote these words. Our problem is not a lack <strong>of</strong> data, but rather an inability to make<br />

sense <strong>of</strong> <strong>and</strong> use what we have.

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