VAST Challenge 2008                                          

The VAST Challenge is a participation category of the IEEE VAST 2008 Symposium (part of VisWeek 2008).  The VAST Challenge continues in the footsteps of the VAST 2006 and 2007 contests with the purpose of pushing the forefront of visual analytics tools using benchmark data sets and establishing a forum to advance visual analytics evaluation methods. We also hope it will speed the transfer of VA technology from research labs to commercial products, and increase the availability of evaluation techniques.

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2008 Challenge Results                                       

Grand Challenge
	Award for Data Integration Drexel University and Pennsylvania State University, USA Don Pellegrino, Chi-Chun Pan, Anthony Robinson, Michael Stryker, Junyan Luo, Chris Weaver, Prasenjit Mitra, Chaomei Chen, Ian Turton, Alan MacEachren Visualization and Collaboration in the VAST 2008 Challenge
	North-East Visualization and Analytics Center (NEVAC) Team Entry
	Award for Support for Diverse Analytic Techniques Oculus Info Inc., Canada Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, Pascale Proulx, Adeel Khamisa, William Wright Visual Analysis with nSpace2 and GeoTime
	GeoTime and nSpace 2 Entry
	Award for Interactive Visual Analytic Environment Palantir Technologies, USA Jason Payne, Jake Solomon, Ravi Sankar, Bob McGrew The Future of Analysis
	Palantir Team Entry
Cell Phone Mini-Challenge
[No photo]	Award for Social Network Accuracy Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Qi Ye, Tian Zhu, Deyong Hu, Bin Wu, Nan Du, Bai Wang Exploring Temporal Communication in Mobile Call Graphs
	GeoTemporalNet Entry
	Award for Intuitive Social Network Graphs University of California, Davis, USA Carlos D. Correa, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Christopher Muelder, Ryan Armstrong, James Shearer, Kwan-Liu Ma Visual Analytics of Cell Phone Data using MobiVis and OntoVis
	MobiVis Entry
	Award for Intuitive Node-Link Animation University College Dublin, Ireland Michael Farrugia, Aaron Quigley Animating Multivariate Dynamic Social Networks
	SocialDynamicsVis Entry
[No photo]	Award for Time Visualizations of Cell Phone Activity University of Maryland, USA Adam Perer Using Social Action to Uncover Hidden Structure in Social Networks over Time
	SocialAction Entry
	Award for Effective Toolkit Integration Vision Systems & Technology, Inc., USA Edward Swing Solving the Cell Phone Calls Challenge with the Prajna Project
	Prajna Project Entry
Evacuation Traces Mini-Challenge
	Award for Tool Integration Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko Analysis of Movements with Geospatial Visual Analytics Toolkit
	Geospatial Visual Analytics Toolkit Entry
	Award for Innovative Trace Visualization Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA Dennis Bouvier, Britian Oates Staining for Information Discovery
	Staining Time and Space for Data Analysis Entry
	Award for User Testing to Obtain Consensus University of Bari, Italy Adalberto Simeoneo, Paolo Buono Discovering the terrorist
	IVU Lab Entry
Migrant Boats Mini-Challenge
[No photo]	Award for Analysis Summary SPADAC, Inc., USA Benjamin Holland, Lisa Kuchy, Jason Dalton A Geo-Temporal Analysis of the Migrant Boat Dataset
	SPADAC Team Entry
	Award for Simple and Effective Integrated Display University of Zagreb, Croatia VRVis Research Center and Virginia Tech, USA Ranko Miklin, Tomislav Lipic, Mario Beric, Zoltan Konyha, Wolfgang Freiler, Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin Geo-Temporal Analysis of Migrant Boats
	VRVis-ComVis Entry

2008 Challenge Entries                                        

• 2008 Challenge Entries

2008 Challenge Publications                                

• Summary of the challenge:
  Grinstein, G., Plaisant, C., Laskowski, S., O’Connell, T., Scholtz, J.,& Whiting, M., VAST 2008 Challenge: Introducing Mini-Challenges, Proceedings of  IEEE VAST Symposium, (pp. 195-196). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. October 21-October 23, 2008.
• A two-page summary of the work of each team listed above appeared in the Proceedings of the 2008 VAST Symposium.

2008 Challenge Metrics                                        

A brief summary of the metrics used for the VAST Challenge 2008.

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2008 Challenge Methods                                     

A brief summary of the methods used for the VAST Challenge 2008.

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2008 Challenge Lessons Learned                        

A brief summary of the lessons learned from the Challenge 2008.

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