VAST Challenge Portal: 2006 - 2009                                        

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Please refer to the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository for current information.

This site was a repository of materials from the VAST Challenge and a portal linking to Visual Analytics Activities.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) was first held in 2006 in conjunction with the IEEE InfoVis 2006 Conference and the IEEE VIS 2006 Conference. A Contest, which was later converted to a Challenge, was incorporated as part of this Symposium. Entries from these contests and challenges are archived on this web site. These entries contain participants’ solutions to the questions posed in the contests or challenges, including descriptions and images of their visualizations, the process they used to arrive at the solution, and in many cases, a short video showing interactions with the visualizations.

Two page papers describing participants’ systems are available as well as links to the original datasets and questions from the contests and challenges.

Additional resources provide more information about evaluation efforts for visual analytics and educational material suitable for college classes in visual analytics.

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