VAST Contest 2007                                              

The VAST Contest was a participation category of the IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium (part of VIS 2007).  It continued in the footsteps of the VAST 2006 contest as its purpose was to promote the development of benchmark data sets and metrics for visual analytics, and to establish a forum to advance visual analytics evaluation methods. Please see the official 2007 contest wesbite for more detailed information.

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2007 Contest Results                                           

Winners
	Corporate Category Oculus Info Inc.   Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, Patricia Enns, Winnifred Kuang, Tom Kapler, Bill Wright nSpace and GeoTime
	nSpace and GeoTime Entry
	University Category Georgia Institute of Technology Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriyah Singhal, John Stasko Jigsaw
	Jigsaw Entry
Best Debriefing Award
	University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University William Chao, Daniel Ha, Kevin Ho, Linda Kaastra, Minjung Kim, Andrew Wade, with student team advisor: Brian Fisher The Bricolage
	Bricolage Entry
Teams Selected to Participate in the Interaction Session
	Georgia Institute of Technology Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu, Neel Parekh, Kanupriyah Singhal, John Stasko Jigsaw
	Jigsaw Entry
	Oculus Info Inc.   Lynn Chien, Annie Tat, Patricia Enns, Winnifred Kuang, Tom Kapler, Bill Wright nSpace and GeoTime
	nSpace and GeoTime Entry
	ATS  Lynn Schwendiman, Jonathan McLean, Jonathan Larson NdCore and REGGAE
	NdCore and REGGAE Entry
Teams Awarded Certificates in Appreciation of Their Participation
	NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Loretta Auvil, Xavier Llora, Duane Searsmith, Kelly Searsmith VAST to Knowledge
	VAST to Knowledge Entry
[No photo]	Penn State University Chi-Chun Pan, Anuj R. Jaiswal, Junyan Luo, Anthony Robinson, with student team advisors: Prasenjit Mitra, Alan M. MacEachren, and Ian Turton TexPlorer
	TexPlorer Entry
	Sandia National Laboratories and Kitware Patricia Crossno, Brian Wylie, Andrew Wilson, John Greenfield, Eric Stanton, Tim Shead, Lisa Ice, Ken Moreland, Jeff Baumes, Berk Geveci DatabaseView
	DatabaseView Entry
	ATS  Lynn Schwendiman, Jonathan McLean, Jonathan Larson NdCore and REGGAE
	NdCore and REGGAE Entry

2007 Contest Solution                                          

• Scenario
• Tables

2007 Contest Publications                                    

• Summary of the contest:
  Grinstein, G., Plaisant, C., O’Connell, T., Laskowski, S., Scholtz, J., Whiting, M., VAST 2007 Contest: Blue Iguanodon, Proc. of  IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (2007)
• A two-page summary of the work of each team listed above appeared in the Proceedings of the 2007 VAST Symposium.
• An article in the March 2008 issue of CG&A gave more details about the contest, results and lessons learned.

2007 Contest Metrics                                            

A brief summary of the metrics used for the VAST Contest 2007.

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2007 Contest Methods                                         

A brief summary of the methods userd for the VAST Contest 2007.

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2007 Contest Lessons Learned                            

A brief summary of the lessons learned from the VAST Contest 2007.

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