Evaluating Visual Analytics: The 2007 Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium Contest

نویسندگان

  • Catherine Plaisant
  • Georges Grinstein
  • Jean Scholtz
  • Mark Whiting
  • Theresa O'Connell
  • Sharon Laskowski
  • Carsten Görg
  • Zhicheng Liu
  • Neel Parekh
  • Kanupriya Singhal
  • John Stasko
چکیده

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.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008