Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest
Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein, Jean C. Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa A. O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, William Wright, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriya Singhal, John Stasko · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 2008
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.