The department of Homeland Security has a keen interest in the development of data-visualization tools that make it easier for intelligence analysts to extract key pieces of information from large volumes of structured and unstructured data. With terrorists taking advantage of the wide-open borders of the Internet and E-mail messaging groups to find recruits, raise money, and encourage jihad against the United States, the department needs a way to ferret out immediate threats as well as uncover sleeper cells and other dangers.
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