VisiTrend offers a range of services to help you get greater value from your data.

VisiTrend can help you build everything from simple dashboards to advanced user interfaces for any data setup and analysis task. We will tailor our designs to your requirements, utilizing our in-house APIs or 3rd party technologies as needed. Visualization is not just a matter of aesthetics; it is a science of human visual perception, and how it can be leveraged to reveal insights and communicate information. Our expertise in visualization is validated both by our clients, and our publications within established research communities, not by blog posts. We can offer the best-informed design for your project, and have the ability to implement it. Effective visual interfaces can do more than allow users to work with backend systems; they can enable users to understand data, explore information, find new questions to ask, discover new insights, evaluate hypotheses, and ultimately make better decisions. We can work with you to understand your particular requirements, and then design visual interfaces to meet them. Our solutions can be applied to multiple domains including, but not limited to, business intelligence, market research, scientific research, and financial analysis. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend combines expertise in information visualization with experience in web development. We can design the most effective web-based interfaces, dashboards, and reporting tools using the APIs and technologies best suited for your requirements. We can integrate with existing business intelligence tools and data infrastructures, or propose options if you’re starting from scratch. Our staff can work with different front-end technologies including Flex, Flash, and AJAX as well as backend technologies including J2EE, multiple databases, and data warehousing tools. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend SM can help analyze data sets of any size and format to find trends, detect anomalies, determine root causes, and perform predictive analysis. Our staff has extensive experience in statistics, data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We can utilize in-house APIs as well as leverage our expertise with 3rd party technologies, including but not limited to: R, Octave, Weka, and Tibco products. We can also customize any of these technologies for your particular requirements. This service can address a particular problem and data set that you’re wrestling with, or be a great starting point for understanding how an interactive visual analytics solution can be used across your organization and into the future. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend can combine capabilities in interface, algorithm, and backend design and development to deliver a complete analytic application tailored to your requirements. Our staff has expertise in information visualization, human-computer interaction, collaborative software, data mining, machine learning, modeling, simulation, predictive analysis, software engineering, and data management. We can customize existing tools for your particular analysis needs, or build a complete solution from scratch. We can work with 3rd party APIs and applications or develop a completely custom solution.

User-friendly tools are often not powerful enough for in-depth analysis. Powerful tools are often not user friendly enough for effective analysis. Visualization can do more than report results: it can enable users to more intuitively interact with the underlying algorithms that generate those results. We design interactive visual analytics that serve as an interface for advanced analysis. Users can visualize their data, then interact directly with that visualization to guide analysis algorithms towards more meaningful results. This approach has several benefits. First and foremost, it makes advanced analysis techniques more intuitive and accessible. Effective visualization provides an initial understanding of the data and its distribution, motivates hypotheses, and provides context for determining what analysis to perform and where to focus it. Users can then interact directly with the visualization to apply algorithms to specific data subsets, monitor algorithm progress, and provide inputs to algorithms to guide them toward more meaningful results based on their interests. While automated analysis can efficiently find statistically significant results, humans ultimately determine what is or is not interesting. Enabling users to guide algorithms combines the complementary strengths of human intuition and machine learning to support more intuitive, efficient, and effective analysis. Involving users in the analysis process also provides a better understanding of the results, rather than forcing them to interpret “black box” output. Finally, visualization is natural medium for supporting collaboration. Visual interfaces can facilitate coordinated analysis and enable users to communicate, annotate data, and share findings.

VisiTrend designs applications that enable users to more effectively explore data, search for patterns, discover new relationships, identify causal dependencies, and perform predictive analysis. Our solutions provide greater insight into what questions to ask, which approaches to take, and ultimately what decisions to make to realize greater value. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend staff has extensive expertise in data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence and related domains. We can design and develop algorithms for modeling, simulation, optimization, and data analysis. We can customize 3rd party APIs or custom engineer algorithms that meet your particular requirements. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend has extensive expertise in designing and developing collaborative software, as demonstrated by our publications in established research communities. We can help engineer a collaborative application for data analysis, or investigate opportunities to add collaborative capabilities to your existing applications. Collaboration can help users share insights during analysis, expediting knowledge discovery and problem solving. From a design perspective, collaborative tools present particular challenges; the user’s creative and collaborative needs must be addressed in a balanced fashion, and data and metadata must be shared between multiple, distributed workstations. VisiTrend staff have experience developing both frontend and backend components of collaborative frameworks: we have designed visual interfaces to support collaboration, and have engineered backend supports such as shared data models and routing algorithms. We will work with you to understand your analysis problem and identify potential points of collaboration in your workflow. We will then design a solution that optimally supports cooperative analysis given your work practices. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend can engineer a data management solution that balances your organizational needs with analysis requirements. We can integrate with your current infrastructure or propose options for starting from scratch. We can work with multiple open source technologies such as Hadoop, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as commercial technologies such as Objectivity/DB, Oracle, and Vertica to address complex data management and analysis issues. As shown in our case studies, we specialize in addressing challenges related to “big data”, different types of data, and distributed databases. Our staff has expertise with multiple data management technologies including data integration, fusion, and warehousing. VisiTrend can design and implement optimal data backends for operations interfaces, reporting tools, business intelligence applications, and advanced analysis. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend actively participates in several research communities, as demonstrated by our publications. This enables us to transition cutting edge technologies to the marketplace, and to offer research and development services to our clients. We can provide everything from lab support to project leadership for your research and development effort. We have experience in project management, experimental design, human-subjects protocols, and coordinating multiple, collaborating teams. VisiTrend was founded by researchers in the fields of information visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We regularly work with universities, research institutions, private companies, and fellow consultants who have expertise in the fields of cyber security, intelligence analysis, operations research, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. Our case studies showcase our ability to bring together these different capabilities in order to bring a project from research and development to production. We can work in many domains and specialize in cognitive approaches, ethnographic methods, and human-subjects experiments for validating efficacy of interfaces and algorithms. Let’s get started.

VisiTrend can combine our software engineering capabilities with our expertise in multiple research domains to help assess and advise on various technological issues. We can produce detailed reports that evaluate a situation at hand as well as enumerate potential solutions. We work with multiple research institutions, universities, and private companies to stay ahead of technology trends and can provide expert opinion on several technological topics. We are always willing to mix and match our core capabilities to provide custom consulting services that meet your organization’s needs. Let’s get started.