Evaluating Visual Analytics: The 2007 Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium Contest | NIST
Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein, Jean C. Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa A. O'Connell, Sharon J. Laskowski, Ting‐Ying Chien, Annie Tat, William Wright, Carsten Görg, Zuai Liu, Nita 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 and contained a scenario with embedded threats that provided ground truth. Using visual analytic tools, participants sought evidence of illegal and terrorist activities. We describe the contest and the evaluation methodology. We report results and lessons learned.