SMWCon Spring 2014/Collaborative Analytics: Where Groups Collaborate with Semantic Visualizations

Wikis at MITRE have turned a corner. They are no longer perceived as second-class knowledge management applications. Last Fall, we presented our body of work as a collection of enterprise semantic encyclopedias as a way to talk about using SMW without using the "wiki" word. Today, six months later, perceptions have changed as a result of close collaboration with internal IT teams. This side-by-side work clarified the niche we continue to move towards -- namely, Collaborative Analytics. We define Collaborative Analytics as the evolution of an SMW wiki to enable groups to work together where the objects of interest are highly interconnected and where a variety of visualizations can reveal patterns and gaps to support decision-making. This talk will showcase our latest visualizations including a new Javascript-based version of Viki, a network graphing extension. Viki represents pages as nodes and links as either the inbound or outbound links. The user can travel the wiki by selecting a node to connect it to its nearest neighbor nodes.