[Ieee_vis] IEEE VIS 2014 CFP: VAST Challenge

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 IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ [1] VAST 2014 Challenge CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION

http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014 [2]  

 

This year’s VAST Challenge presents three inter-related mini-challenges
and an overall Grand Challenge to test your skills. These challenges
feature a mix of data types, including text, transaction, network, and
geospatial / temporal. This year’s challenge also features a first for
the VAST Challenge - a streaming text dataset for you to analyze. 

 

These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in
industry, government, and academia. We encourage your submissions, and look
forward to seeing your innovative approaches to solving these challenges
using visual analytics.

Background: The Kronos Incident
In the roughly twenty years that Tethys-based GAStech has been operating a
natural gas production site in the island country of Kronos, it has
produced remarkable profits and developed strong relationships with the
government of Kronos. However, GAStech has not been as successful in
demonstrating environmental stewardship.

 

In January, 2014, the leaders of GAStech are celebrating their new-found
fortune as a result of the initial public offering of their very successful
company. In the midst of this celebration, several employees of GAStech go
missing.  An organization known as the Protectors of Kronos (POK) is
suspected in the disappearance, but things may not be what they seem.

 

As an expert in visual analytics, you are called in to help law enforcement
from Kronos and Tethys assess the situation and figure out where the
missing employees are and how to get them home again.  Time is of the
essence.

THE CHALLENGES

DATA AVAILABLE NOW! MINI-CHALLENGE 1  [3]focuses on the disappearance
itself. As an analyst, you have a set of current and historical news
reports at your disposal, as well as resumes of numerous GAStech employees
and email headers from two weeks of internal GAStech company email. You are
being counted on to bring law enforcement up to date on the current
organization of the POK and how that organization has changed over time, as
well as to characterize the events surrounding the disappearance.

DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE! MINI-CHALLENGE 2  [4]asks you to analyze movement
and tracking data. GAStech provides many of their employees with company
cars for their personal and professional use, but unbeknownst to the
employees, the cars are equipped with GPS tracking devices. You are given
tracking data for the two weeks leading up to the disappearance, as well as
credit card transaction and loyalty card usage data. From this data, can
you identify suspicious behaviors? Can you identify people and locations
that law enforcement should investigate? Data for this mini-challenge will
be made available in April. 

DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE! MINI-CHALLENGE 3  [5]poses a streaming analysis
challenge. You will have access to real-time feeds of microblogs and
emergency calls. Can you monitor this stream to identify where the missing
GAStech employees are, where they may located in the near future, and what
steps are needed to bring them home? Data for this mini-challenge will be
made available in April. 

AVAILABLE NOW! In the GRAND CHALLENGE [6], you are asked to put all the
pieces together. Who disappeared? Who was responsible for the
disappearance? And what were the underlying motivations for the
disappearance?

 

For Further Information

For more information, please see http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014
[7]  or contact vast_challenge at ieeevis.org [8].

 

The submission deadline is July 8, 2014.

 

We look forward to seeing your creative solutions!

 

Kris Cook, Georges Grinstein, and Mark Whiting

VAST Challenge Committee co-chairs

 

 

 

 

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Links:
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[1] http://ieeevis.org/
[2] http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014
[3] http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+1
[4] http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+2
[5] http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Mini-Challenge+3
[6] http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014%3A+Grand+Challenge
[7] http://vacommunity.org/VASTchallenge2014
[8] mailto:vast_challenge at ieeevis.org
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