VAST 2007 Contest - Blue Iguanadon

Published

October 30, 2007

Author(s)

Georges Grinstein, Catherine Plaisant, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting

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 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 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.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of VAST 2007 Conference

Conference Dates

October 30-November 1, 2007

Conference Location

Sacramento, CA, US

Conference Title

VAST 2007 Conference

Pub Type

Conferences

Download Paper

Local Download

Keywords

contest, evaluation, information/knowledge management, metrics, sense making, visual analytics

Citation

Grinstein, G. , Plaisant, C. , O'Connell, T. , Laskowski, S. , Scholtz, J. and Whiting, M. (2007), VAST 2007 Contest - Blue Iguanadon, Proceedings of VAST 2007 Conference, Sacramento, CA, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51342 (Accessed October 9, 2025)