>>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<< www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09 A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2009 Symposium FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 20 Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets? - Social network - Internet and badge traffic - Video We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU... You can submit a Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks. 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 20 - Results: ~ August 1 - Challenge Workshop and VAST 2009 Symposium: October 10 - 16 WHAT DO YOU GET? - The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2009 Symposium and may participate in a panel at the Conference. - ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website. - Teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge WORKSHOP to discuss the results of the Challenge, compare their experiences, and influence next year's Challenge. - Student participants may apply for travel support www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge09 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 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/