VAST challenge 2015: Grand challenge - Team VADER/VIS Award for Outstanding Comprehensive Submission

The VAST 2015 Grand Challenge focused on a fictional park called DinoFunWorld where visitors are provided with a handheld device for communicating with park patrons and registering their visits to rides. Our goal was to develop a visual analytics system to help explore the spatiotemporal movement and communication data of the park patrons. Specifically, we wanted was to determine which patrons were involved in a theft that occurred at a park pavilion. In order to facilitate this data exploration, we have created a web-deployable system that combines data wrangling, trajectory analysis, network analysis, and interactive visualizations for discovering movement and communication patterns of users and their networks. We earned the Award for Outstanding Comprehensive Submission.