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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
2011 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
2019 is complete? Please
enter a YES or NO
Video
Provide
a link to your video. Example:
http://www.westbirmingham.ac.uk/uwb-smith-mc3-video.wmv
Questions
The City has been using Y*INT to communicate with
its citizens, even post-earthquake. However, City officials needs additional
information to determine the best way to allocate emergency resources across
all neighborhoods of St. Himark. Your task, using
your visual analytics on the community Y*INT data, is to determine the types of
problems that are occurring across the St. Himark.
Then, advise the City on how to prioritize the distribution of resources. Keep in mind that not all sources on Y*INT
are reliable, and that priorities may change over time as the state of
neighborhoods also changes.
1 – Using visual analytics, characterize conditions
across the city and recommend how resources should be allocated at 5 hours and
30 hours after the earthquake. Include
evidence from the data to support these recommendations. Consider how to allocate resources such as
road crews, sewer repair crews, power, and rescue teams. Limit your response to
1000 words and 12 images.
Provide your answer
and corresponding images here.
2 – Identify at least 3 times when
conditions change in a way that warrants a re-allocation of city
resources. What were the conditions
before and after the inflection point?
What locations were affected?
Which resources are involved? Limit your response to 1000 words and 10
images.
Provide your answer
and corresponding images here.
3 – Take the pulse of the
community. How has the earthquake
affected life in St. Himark? What is the community
experiencing outside the realm of the first two questions? Show decision makers
summary information and relevant/characteristic examples. Limit your response
to 800 words and 8 images.
Provide your answer
and corresponding images here.
4 –– The data for this
challenge can be analyzed either as a static collection or as a dynamic stream
of data, as it would occur in a real emergency.
Describe how you analyzed the data - as a static collection or a
stream. How do you think this choice
affected your analysis? Limit your response to 200 words and 3 images.
Provide your answer
and corresponding images here.