[Infovis] VAST 2010 Visual Analytics CHALLENGE - Final CALL

[Plaisant, Catherine]

             >>> Visual Analytics Challenge <<<

            www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 
   A submission category of the IEEE VAST 2010 Conference

          FINAL CALL: Submission Deadline June 29 

Do you think you can analyze JUST ONE of these data sets?
  - Text Records ~ an investigation into arms dealing)
  - Hospitalization Records ~ characterizing a pandemic spread
  - Genetic Sequences ~ tracing the mutations of a disease

We have DATA and REPRESENTATIVE TASKS for YOU...
You can submit a Mini-Challenge entry for any of these tasks.

And if you can pull all that data together and analyze the overall
situation then you can submit to the Grand Challenge.

Entries will be judged on the ACCURACY of the answers (compared to our
ground truth scenario) and the RATINGS given by Visual Analytics peer
reviewers AND by professional analysts.

DATES
   - Submission: June 29 
   - Results: ~ August 10
   - Challenge Participant Workshop: October 24 (only if you submit)
   - VisWeek 2010: October 24 - 29, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

WHAT DO YOU GET?
  - The most deserving entries receive awards, have their two-page
summary PUBLISHED in the PROCEEDINGS of the VAST 2010 Conference.
  - ALL submitted entries have their two-page summary, answers and
descriptive materials PUBLISHED on an archival website.
  - All the teams submitting an entry are invited to a Challenge
Participant WORKSHOP to compare their experiences (with short
presentation and poster session), discuss the results, and influence
next year's Challenge.
  - Student participants may apply for partial travel support 

www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge2010 

VAST Challenge Chairs
  - Georges Grinstein, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell
  - Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland
  - Jean Scholtz, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  - Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Lab

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Questions: use the blog, or email challengecommittee at cs.umd.edu 
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Catherine Plaisant, PhD
Associate Director of Research
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Maryland, College Park
(301) 405-2768
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/