Enhancing the “think loop process” with consistent interactions: VAST 2012 Mini Challenge 1 award: Honorable mention for good interaction techniques

The 2012 VAST Mini-Challenge 1 presented in excess of 158 million data points for analysis. The data consisted of network events from Bank of Money, a large organization whose branches spanned the entirety of fictional BankWorld, as well as the assets generating the events. Two network event datasets were used to analyze the network´s state and determine what anomalies could be affecting it. The first dataset contained snapshot data of the network at 2 PM BankWorld Mean Time (BMT). The second contained all events from across the Bank of Money organization for the span of two days. Using the CoMotion^® platform, analysts determined several different causes for concern within the data, such as compromised machine statuses, missing datacenter events and anomalous events encompassing entire Regions.