VAST contest dataset use in education

The IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium has held a contest each year since its inception in 2006. These events are designed to provide visual analytics researchers and developers with analytic challenges similar to those encountered by professional information analysts. The...

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Published in:2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology pp. 115 - 122
Main Authors: Whiting, M.A., North, C., Endert, A., Scholtz, J., Haack, J., Varley, C., Thomas, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.10.2009
Subjects:
Application software
Computer science
Computer science education
Data visualization
education
Educational institutions
Educational technology
evaluation
Government
Information analysis
Laboratories
synthetic data
Visual analytics
ISBN:9781424452835, 142445283X
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Summary:The IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium has held a contest each year since its inception in 2006. These events are designed to provide visual analytics researchers and developers with analytic challenges similar to those encountered by professional information analysts. The VAST contest has had an extended life outside of the symposium, however, as materials are being used in universities and other educational settings, either to help teachers of visual analytics-related classes or for student projects. We describe how we develop VAST contest datasets that results in products that can be used in different settings and review some specific examples of the adoption of the VAST contest materials in the classroom. The examples are drawn from graduate and undergraduate courses at Virginia Tech and from the Visual Analytics ldquoSummer Camprdquo run by the National Visualization and Analytics Center in 2008. We finish with a brief discussion on evaluation metrics for education.
ISBN:9781424452835
142445283X
DOI:10.1109/VAST.2009.5333245