VAST 2007 Contest - Blue Iguanodon

Author

Grinstein, Georges ; Plaisant, Catherine ; Laskowski, Sharon ; O´Connell, Theresa ; Scholtz, Jean ; Whiting, Mark

Author_Institution

Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 30 2007-Nov. 1 2007

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

232

Abstract

Visual analytics experts realize that one effective way to push the field forward and to develop metrics for measuring the performance of various visual analytics components is to hold an annual competition. The second visual analytics science and technology (VAST) contest was held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE VAST symposium. In this contest participants were to use visual analytic tools to explore a large heterogeneous data collection to construct a scenario and find evidence buried in the data of illegal and terrorist activities that were occurring. A synthetic data set was made available as well as tasks. In this paper we describe some of the advances we have made from the first competition held in 2006.

Keywords

data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; illegal activities; large heterogeneous data collection; terrorist activities; visual analytic tools; Data analysis; Data mining; Data visualization; Graphical user interfaces; Information services; Internet; Laboratories; NIST; Visual analytics; Web sites; contest; evaluation; human information interaction; metrics; sense making; visual analytics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2007. VAST 2007. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sacramento, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1659-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VAST.2007.4389032

Filename

4389032