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Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest
March/April 2008 (vol. 28 no. 2)
pp. 12-21
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Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon Laskowski, Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, William Wright, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriya Singhal, John Stasko, "Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 12-21, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2008.27,
author = {Catherine Plaisant and Georges Grinstein and Jean Scholtz and Mark Whiting and Theresa O'Connell and Sharon Laskowski and Lynn Chien and Annie Tat and William Wright and Carsten Görg and Zhicheng Liu and Neel Parekh and Kanupriya Singhal and John Stasko},
title = {Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {28},
number = {2},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2008},
pages = {12-21},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2008.27},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
TI - Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest
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SN - 0272-1716
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A1 - Annie Tat,
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KW - sense making
KW - metrics
KW - and VAST contest.
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Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland
Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Theresa O'Connell, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sharon Laskowski, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Lynn Chien, Oculus Info
Annie Tat, Oculus Info
William Wright, Oculus Info
Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhicheng Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Neel Parekh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kanupriya Singhal, Georgia Institute of Technology
John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology
The second Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) contest's data consisted of a heterogeneous synthetic collection of news articles with additional supporting files. It also contained a scenario with embedded threats that provided ground truth. Using visual analytic tools, participants sought evidence of illegal and terrorist activities. The authors report the results and lessons learned.

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Index Terms:
evaluation, visual analytics, human information interaction, sense making, metrics, and VAST contest.
Citation:
Catherine Plaisant, Georges Grinstein, Jean Scholtz, Mark Whiting, Theresa O'Connell, Sharon Laskowski, Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, William Wright, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriya Singhal, John Stasko, "Evaluating Visual Analytics at the 2007 VAST Symposium Contest," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 12-21, Mar./Apr. 2008, doi:10.1109/MCG.2008.27
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