This answer sheet should be used for your VAST Challenge 2021 Mini-Challenge 1 submission. Please maintain the .htm format and make sure that all hyperlinks are relative to the answer form.

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Entry Name: "UWB-Smith-MC1"

VAST Challenge 2021
Mini-Challenge 1

Team Members:

Replace this list of team members with the names, affiliations, and email addresses of your own team. Indicate the primary point of contact. Example:

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

Tools Used:

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 2021 is complete? Please enter a YES or NO

Video

Provide a link to your video. Example:

http://www.westbirmingham.ac.uk/uwb-smith-mc2-video.wmv

Questions

1 –– Characterize the news data sources provided. Which are primary sources and which are derivative sources? What are the relationships between the primary and derivative sources? Please limit your answer to 8 images and 300 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.

2 – Characterize any biases you identify in these news sources, with respect to their representation of specific people, places, and events. Give examples. Please limit your answer to 6 images and 500 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.

3 – Given the data sources provided, use visual analytics to identify potential official and unofficial relationships among GASTech, POK, the APA, and Government. Include both personal relationships and shared goals and objectives. Provide evidence for these relationships. Please limit your answer to 6 images and 400 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.

4 –– If you solved this mini-challenge in 2014, how did you approach it differently this year?

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.