VAST Challenge 2010
News
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The 1st mini-challenge involves text
documents; the second mini-challenge use medical record data and death records.
The third mini-challenge asks you to analyze genetic sequences.
The VAST 2010 Challenge will follow a format
similar to the 2008 and 2009 Challenge. Please refer to the website of those
previous years for examples.� We will
send email to everyone who registered with a valid address when downloading a
2008 or 2009 challenge data set.
Overview of the event
(unchanged since 2009)
The VAST Challenge is a participation
category of the IEEE
VAST 2010 Symposium (part of VisWeek
2010). The VAST Challenge continues in the footsteps of the VAST 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
Challenge with the purpose of pushing the forefront of visual analytics
tools using benchmark data sets and establishing a forum to advance visual
analytics evaluation methods. We also hope it will speed the transfer of VA
technology from research labs to commercial products, and increase the
availability of evaluation techniques.
In order to provide more
opportunities for increased participation we offer an overall Grand Challenge
as well as several smaller Mini Challenges.�
Teams may enter one or more mini Challenges independently of the
entering the Grand Challenge.� ALL teams submitting an entry to a VAST Challenge will be invited to
discuss their work during a challenge workshop.
Entries will be judged on both the
correctness of the analysis (based on the availability of ground truth) and the
utility of the tools in conducting the analysis. Participants have several
months to prepare their submissions.
Although the grand and mini-challenges are currently
focused on homeland security topics we want to emphasize that both the problems
and their solutions are indicative of very broad applicability. The challenges
are very similar and representative of data sets that deal with medical,
health, financial, educational, transportation, or social data. In fact it is
our strong belief that good tools that succeed in solving the mini or grand
challenges will easily apply to a broader collection of data sets, and we
encourage individuals and groups from all disciplines to not only participate
in the challenges but in the workshop and future planning of the VAST challenge
activities.�
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Timeline
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Early March���������������������������������������� Sample data available
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End of March ������������������������������������� Final
data set and tasks available
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June 29���������������������������������������������� Submissions
deadline
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August 10 ������������������������������������������ Results available
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August 25������������������������������������������� Deadline
for award winners to submit 2-page summary for inclusion in the proceedings
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October 24-29������������������������������������� VAST
Symposium
Questions?
Send
email to: challengecommittee(AT)cs.umd.edu
VAST 2010
Challenge Chairs
Georges Grinstein, University of
Massachusetts Lowell
Catherine Plaisant, HCIL, University of
Maryland
Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Contact us:� challengecommittee(AT)cs.umd.edu
Related URLS
VAST 2009 challenge and VAST 2008 challenge
SEMVAST project: Scientific
Evaluation Methods for Visual Analytics Science and Technology
Workshop
on Visual Analytics VAKD�09 (June 28th, Paris France).
CG&A
Journal paper about the VAST 2007 contest
CG&A
Special Issue on Visual Analytics Evaluation. (published in April 2009)