Title
Evaluating visual analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium contest.
Abstract
The second Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) contest's data consisted of a heterogeneous synthetic collection of news articles with additional supporting files. It also contained a scenario with embedded threats that provided ground truth. Using visual analytic tools, participants sought evidence of illegal and terrorist activities. The authors report the results and lessons learned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/MCG.2008.27
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
heterogeneous synthetic collection,visual analytic tool,ground truth,additional supporting file,visual analytics science,terrorist activity,vast symposium contest,embedded threat,news article,visual analytics,metrics,data visualisation,evaluation
Data science,Data visualization,Computer science,CONTEST,Baseline (configuration management),Visual analytics,Semantic analytics,Cultural analytics,Analytics,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
2
0272-1716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
2.43
5
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Catherine Plaisant14689622.05
Georges G. Grinstein2853161.11
Jean Scholtz38610.34
Mark Whiting4616.02
Theresa O'Connell5272.77
Sharon Laskowski6586.61
Lynn Chien7364.35
Annie Tat8554.77
William Wright9272.43
Carsten Görg1077147.19
Zhicheng Liu1193752.56
Neel Parekh12333.79
Kanupriya Singhal13333.79
John Stasko145655494.01