Visual Analytics Challenge

Visual Analytics Challenge

In 2008, visual analytics researchers were presented with a set of 4 mini-challenges concerning a fictitious, controversial socio-political movement, as a part of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) symposium. These mini-challenges, which were designed to allow participation by a broad spectrum of researchers and tool builders, were very useful in learning about the application of visual analytics tools to problems similar to those working analysts face.

You are invited to work the VAST 2008 challenges, and use those datasets, to illustrate your KDD/VA research. A distinct advantage to you in using these datasets is that we will be able to compare and contrast approaches taken by the visual analytics community with yours and examine the possibilities for synergies between the two communities. We will present examples of the VAST 2008 challenge solutions at the workshop, as a springboard to follow-on discussion.

We strongly encourage (but do not strictly require) all workshop contributors to use at least some of the challenge tasks to demonstrate the methods and concepts proposed in the contributions. This will support the discussion by making the position papers more concrete by providing a common problem for all, as well as serve as uniform benchmark data set for the workshop submissions.

[You may also find interesting the recently published IEEE VAST 2009 Challenge, with a submission deadline on 20 June 2009 and workshop on 10 October 2009.]

http://www.hiit.fi/vakd09/challenge.html
2009-03-16

vakd09@hiit.fi