The Beneficial Role of the VAST Challenges in the Evolution of GeoTime and nSpace2
Abstract
Oculus participated in the first VAST Challenge in 2006 and in every subsequent year except one. Although we have won 5 awards in the last 7 years, they are not the main reason we spend much time and effort preparing our submission each year. The VAST Challenge has proven to be a valuable exercise in evaluating and refining our tools and our thinking. No organization that has the desire to create the best possible analytic tools should pass by the unique opportunity to work on a realistic set of tasks, against nontoy datasets containing ground truth, and to be evaluated by both senior analysts and experts within the visual analytics community. Oculus staff and products have benefited from the experience as have the whole visual analytics community researchers and practitioners.
Recommended Citation
P. Proulx and C. I. Canfield, "The Beneficial Role of the VAST Challenges in the Evolution of GeoTime and nSpace2," Information Visualization, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3 - 9, SAGE Publications, Jan 2015.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871613487090
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Visual Analytics; Human Information Interaction; Sense Making; Geospatial Information Systems; Evaluation; Contest
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1473-8716; 1473-8724
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2012 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2015
