This answer
sheet should be used for your VAST Challenge 2021 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 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
Use visual analytics to analyze the available
data and develop responses to the questions to be provided. In addition,
prepare a video that shows how you used visual analytics to solve this
challenge.
Questions
1 –– Using
visual analytics, characterize the different types of content in the dataset.
What distinguishes meaningful event reports from typical chatter from junk or
spam? Please limit your answer to 8
images and 500 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding images here.
2 – Use visual analytics to represent and evaluate how the level of the risk
to the public evolves over the course of the evening. Consider the potential
consequences of the situation and the number of people who could be affected. Please limit your answer to 10 images and
1000 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding images here.
3 – If you were able to send a team of first responders to any single place,
where would it be? Provide your rationale. How might your response be different
if you had to respond to the events in real time rather than retrospectively?
Please limit your answer to 8 images and 500 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 here.