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Challenge 2018 Mini-Challenge 3 submission.
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Marion Smith, University of West Birmingham, smith@westbirmingham.ac.uk PRIMARY
Paul White, University of Northeastern Washington, white@unew.edu
Student Team: Please enter YES or NO
Provide
a list of tools used. Examples:
Tableau
Excel
Spinviz, developed by the University of West
Birmingham CS 459 Information Visualization class, taught
Spring 2018 by Dr. Smith, and adapted by the student team for the challenge.
Approximately how
many hours were spent working on this submission in total?
Provide
an estimate of the total number of hours worked on this submission by your
entire team.
May we post your
submission in the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository after VAST Challenge
2018 is complete? Please
enter a YES or NO
Video
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a link to your video. Example:
http://www.westbirmingham.ac.uk/uwb-smith-mc2-video.wmv
Questions
1. Using the four large Kasios International data sets, combine the
different sources to create a single picture of the company. Characterize
changes in the company over time. According to the company’s communications and
purchase habits, is the company growing?
Limit your responses
to 5 images and 500 words
Provide your answer and corresponding images here.
2.
Combine the four data
sources for group that the insider has identified as being suspicious and
locate the group in the larger dataset. Determine if anyone else appears to be
closely associated with this group. Highlight which employees are making
suspicious purchases, according to the insider’s data.
Limit your responses
to 8 images and 500 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding images here.
3.
Using the combined
group of suspected bad actors you created in question 2, show the interactions
within the group over time.
a. Characterize the group’s organizational
structure and show a full picture of communications within the group.
b. Does the group composition change during
the course of their activities?
c. How do the group’s interactions change over
time?
Limit
your responses to 10 images and 1000 words
Provide
your answer and corresponding images here.
4.
The
insider has provided a list of purchases that might indicate illicit activity
elsewhere in the company. Using the structure of the first group noted by the
insider as a model can you find any other instances of suspicious activities in
the company? Are there other groups that have structure and activity similar to
this one? Who are they? Each of the suspicious purchases could be a starting
point for your search. Provide examples of up to two other groups you find that
appear suspicious and compare their structure with the structure of the first
group. The structures should be presented as temporal not just structural
(i.e., the sequence of events—A is followed by B one or two days later—will be
important).
Limit
your responses to 10 images and 1200 words
Provide
your answer and corresponding images here.