>>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<< www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2010 Conference FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 29 Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets? - Text Records ~ an investigation into arms dealing) - Hospitalization Records ~ characterizing a pandemic spread - Genetic Sequences ~ tracing the mutations of a disease We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU... You can submit a Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks. And if you can pull all that data together and analyze the overall situation then you can submit to the Grand Challenge. Entries will be judged on the ACCURACY of the answers (compared to our ground truth scenario) and the RATINGS given by Visual Analytics peer reviewers AND by professional analysts. DATES - Submission: June 29 - Results: ~ August 10 - Challenge Participant Workshop: October 24 (only if you submit) - VisWeek 2010: October 24 - 29, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA WHAT DO YOU GET? - The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2010 Conference. - ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website. - All the teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge Participant WORKSHOP to compare their experiences (with short presentation and poster session), discuss the results, and influence next year's Challenge. - Student participants may apply for partial travel support www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 VAST Challenge Chairs - Georges Grinstein, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell - Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland - Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab - Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Lab --- Questions: use the blog, or email challengecommittee@cs.umd.edu --- Catherine Plaisant, PhD Associate Director of Research Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park (301) 405-2768 http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/