ITA.WA.: 1st Italian visualization & visual analytics workshop

Data-driven approaches to problem solving and data analysis are becoming more and more important problems to consider and on which apply research ideas. In this respect, the capability to explore data, understands how algorithmic approaches work and steer them toward the desired goals make Visualization and Visual Analytics strong research fields in which to invest efforts. While this importance has been understood by several countries (e.g., USA, Germany, France) in Italy the research efforts in these fields are still disjointed. With the first edition of the ITA.WA. (Italian Visualization & Visual Analytics) workshop the goal is to make a step toward the creation of an Italian research community on these topics, allowing identification of research direction, joining forces in achieving them and developing common guidelines and programs for teaching activities.