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VAST Challenge 2013 - MC3 - Big Marketing

Background Big Marketing is an international marketing company employing a large staff of marketing executives who create and manage advertising and public relations campaigns for…

VAST Challenge 2010 - Grand Challenge

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

VAST Challenge 2008 - Grand Challenge

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

VAST Challenge 2007

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

VAST Challenge 2011 - MC2 - Computer Networking Operations

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

VAST Challenge 2011- MC3 - Investigation into Terrorist Activity

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

VAST Challenge 2011 - MC1 - Characterization of an Epidemic Spread

A major epidemic has started in the city of Vastopolis. The task is to analyze the data and determine how the epidemic is being spread and whether or not it is contained. The…

VAST Challenge 2008 - MC2 - Migrant Boats

This data comprises records dealing with the mass movement of persons departing Isla Del Sueño on boats for the United States during 2005 - 2007. This activity was precipitated by…

VAST Challenge 2008 - MC1 - Wiki Editors

VAST Challenge 2008 - MC4 - Evacuation Traces

In August 2007, a small improvised explosive device was set off at a Miami, Florida Department of Health (DOH) building, resulting in casualties and moderate damage. This DOH…

VAST Challenge 2014 - MC1

VAST Challenge 2014 - MC2

VAST Challenge 2014 - MC3

VAST Challenge 2014 - Grand Challenge

VAST Challenge 2012 - MC1 - Bank of Money Enterprise Cyber

In the 1st mini challenge the imaginary Bank of Money needs your best situation awareness visualization to understand the health of it global network. But how do you visualize a…

VAST Challenge 2011 - Grand Challenge

In Mini-Challenge 1, you used microblog data to characterize an epidemic spread. In Mini-Challenge 2, you conducted cyber security analysis for situational awareness of a…

VAST Challenge 2010 - MC2 - Characterization of Pandemic Spread

VAST Challenge 2010 - MC3 - Tracing the Mutations of a Disease

VAST Challenge 2009 - MC1 - Badge and Network Traffic

An embassy employee is suspected of sending data to an outside criminal organization from the Embassy.

VAST Challenge 2009 - MC2 - Social Network and Geospatial

Embassy employees are known to have use the social networking/micro-blogging tool, Flitter, to communicate with colleagues and friends. The Flitter network may provide a…

VAST Challenge 2010 - MC1 - Investigations into Arms Dealing

You have been charged with providing a forensic analysis of illegal arms dealing that may have taken place last year.

VAST Challenge 2009 - MC3 - Video Analysis

VAST Challenge 2009 - Grand Challenge

We provide several additional pieces of information to assist you in summarizing the activities of the employee and the criminal organization. First, we give you a list of IP…

VAST Challenge 2008 - MC3 - Cell Phone Calls

A set of cell phone call records from Isla Del Sueño over a ten-day period in June 2006 was narrowed down to about 400 unique cell phones during this period. The records provide…

VAST Challenge 2006

The dataset contains fictitious information and was created for testing and evaluation of visual analytic tools only. No part of this dataset should be taken as real.

InfoVis Contest 2005

The data provided represents technology companies organized by year and year founded with location (city, state, zip), sales, employment, primary industry, and product types. The…

InfoVis Contest 2006

The contest data set consists of 1% of the results of the U.S. Census from 2000.

InfoVis Contest 2003

Tree comparisons from three domains.

InfoVis Contest 2004

The dataset contains complete metadata for all the papers of 8 years (1995-2002) of InfoVis Conference and their references. The year 2003 will be added as soon as ACM acquires…

InfoVis Contest 2007

All US movies released from 2000 to 2006 (around 20,000). Information can be missing, though all movies in the data base will at least have one director and one actor or actress.…

Design Considerations for Optimizing Storyline Visualizations

Storyline visualization is a technique used to depict the temporal dynamics of social interactions.

An Empirical Model of Slope Ratio Comparisons

Comparing slopes is a fundamental graph reading task and the aspect ratio chosen for a plot influences how easy these comparisons are to make. According to Banking to 45°, a…

Sketchy Rendering for Information Visualization

Handy Allows you to produce graphics with a hand-drawn appearance. This can be customised to produce a variety of styles including pencil, watercolour and ink and marker pen…

Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios (Paper Codings)

Codes assigned to papers from VAST, InfoVis, EuroVis, and IVS.

ReVision Corpus

ReVision: Automated Classification, Analysis and Redesign of Chart Images Manolis Savva, Nicholas Kong, Arti Chhajta, Li Fei-Fei, Maneesh Agrawala, Jeffrey Heer ACM User Interface…

Graphical Overlays: Using Layered Elements to Aid Chart Reading

Reading a visualization can involve a number of tasks such as extracting, comparing or aggregating numerical values. Yet, most of the charts that are published in newspapers,…

Visualization Conference Acceptance Rates

Acceptance rates for conferences that are the most relevant for people in visualization, in particular information visualization. The goal is to provide more transparency about…

DeepTree Exhibit: Visualizing the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project…