摘要
The use of interactive imagery to capture, convey and conjure -- in many ways both an art and a science -- is a field of growing importance and relevance. At a funda- mental level, a series of interconnected communication pipes, storage hubs, and users comprise the essential artifacts in communication systems today, yet managing and understand- ing information flows at an actionable level remains elusive. The application of interactive processing and visualization to these -- often massively large -- information flows （mes- sages, streams, user-actions） at varying scales and dimen- sions is a fundamental aspect of big data visualization and enterprise analytics. Scale is a relative concept but distinct challenges arise when data becomes petabyte large, streams arrive almost inconceivably quickly, and the user-base is massive. Today, carriers, over-the-top service providers, Web and mobile startups,
