VizWeek 2009: Awards and Workflow
August 24th, 2009 |
We put up a post last year on the 2008 VAST Grand Challenge. Well, the IEEE VAST Challenge 2009 is over and the awards are in. We had another strong year, scoring two awards:
- Grand Challenge: Analyst’s Tool Choice (Of 48 submissions, only 3 Grand Challenge awards were given)
- Intuitive Traffic Visualization and Video Description of the Analysis Process
Some background on the event: three years ago, the IEEE began an annual conference called VAST (Visual Analytics in Science and Technology). The VAST symposium focuses on the fundamental research contributions and real-world application of visual analytics. As a part of the conference, the VAST Challenge allows teams to compete on delivering analytic solutions against a synthetic real-world dataset.
A selection of choice quotes from the judges:
- An award for “highly usable integrated exploration environment”, “efficient analytic exploration platform” or something along these lines would be appropriate.
- Survey Question: How much novelty do you see in this submission (data processing, visualization, interaction, hypothesis generation or evaluation, overall process, etc.)? Answer: More so than novelty was the extremely efficient solution approach to this challenge, much more so than other solutions.
- The submission shows two things very clearly: One, it shows the analytical process as being a multi-faceted, simultaneous processing of different information that is quite common among analysts. Two, it shows how multiple perspectives can be displayed on a single monitor, enabling the analyst to visualize what his mind is analyzing. Outstanding!
Our submission
And finally, our submission to the Grand Challenge. Here we have our overview video, with a link to the full video below:
For an in-depth look at the data and techniques used to make this a reality, check out our full submission in Finding a Mole: Cyber Counter Intelligence on the Palantir Analysis Blog.
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