{"title":"E-Map: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring Significant Event Evolutions in Social Media","authors":"Siming Chen, Shuai Chen, Lijing Lin, Xiaoru Yuan, Jie Liang, X. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585638","url":null,"abstract":"Significant events are often discussed and spread through social media, involving many people. Reposting activities and opinions expressed in social media offer good opportunities to understand the evolution of events. However, the dynamics of reposting activities and the diversity of user comments pose challenges to understand event-related social media data. We propose E-Map, a visual analytics approach that uses map-like visualization tools to help multi-faceted analysis of social media data on a significant event and in-depth understanding of the development of the event. E-Map transforms extracted keywords, messages, and reposting behaviors into map features such as cities, towns, and rivers to build a structured and semantic space for users to explore. It also visualizes complex posting and reposting behaviors as simple trajectories and connections that can be easily followed. By supporting multi-level spatial temporal exploration, E-Map helps to reveal the patterns of event development and key players in an event, disclosing the ways they shape and affect the development of the event. Two cases analysing real-world events confirm the capacities of E-Map in facilitating the analysis of event evolution with social media data.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134429647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvana Podaras, Michael Beham, R. Splechtna, D. Gračanin, K. Matkovič
{"title":"GC --- Holistic Analysis of Heterogeneous Datasets","authors":"Silvana Podaras, Michael Beham, R. Splechtna, D. Gračanin, K. Matkovič","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585435","url":null,"abstract":"The 2017 VAST Challenge is set in a fictional natural preserve surrounded by a small industrial area with four companies and a mid-size city. In this area, the population of a local bird, the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit, is decreasing. The task of the Grand Challenge was to combine findings of the three Mini-Challenges and additional textual data and build a hypothesis about what (and who) could impact the birds population.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133315288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Visual Explorer for Analyzing Trajectory Patterns","authors":"Wooil Kim, Changbeom Shim, Ilhyun Suh, Y. Chung","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585462","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a web-based interactive visual analytic system effective for revealing the trajectory patterns. We describe the analysis approach with the data of MC1 of the VAST challenge 2017. Index Terms—Visual analytics, Information visualization","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128976695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive Visual Analytics Application for Spatiotemporal Movement Data VAST Challenge 2017 Mini-Challenge 1: Award for Actionable and Detailed Analysis","authors":"Yifei Guan, Kam Tin Seong","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585564","url":null,"abstract":"The Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge 2017 Mini-Challenge 1 dataset mirrored the challenging scenarios in analysing large spatiotemporal movement tracking datasets. The datasets provided contains a 13-month movement data generated by five types of sensors, for six types of vehicles passing through the Boonsong Lekagul Nature Preserve. We present an application developed with the market leading visualisation software Tableau to provide an interactive visual analysis of the multi-dimensional spatiotemporal datasets. Our interactive application allows the user to perform an interactive analysis to observe movement patterns, study vehicle trajectories and identify movement anomalies while allowing them to customise the preferred visualisation configurations.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116867377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detecting Vehicular Patterns Using a Graph-Based Approach","authors":"Sirisha Velampalli, Lenin Mookiah, W. Eberle","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585667","url":null,"abstract":"In the VAST 2017 competition, one of the challenges is to discover vehicular traffic patterns for understanding the reasons behind a decrease in the number of nesting pairs of Rose-Crested Blue Pipit. In this work, we present a graph-based approach that analyzes the data for structural patterns in the data. Our approach first reports the normative patterns in the data, and then discovers any anomalous patterns associated with the previously discovered patterns.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129563936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Whiting, Kristin A. Cook, R. J. Crouser, John Fallon, G. Grinstein, J. Haack, C. Henderson, Kristen Liggett, D. Staheli, J. Strasburg, J. Tagestad, Carrie Varley
{"title":"VAST Challenge 2017: Mystery at the Wildlife Preserve","authors":"M. Whiting, Kristin A. Cook, R. J. Crouser, John Fallon, G. Grinstein, J. Haack, C. Henderson, Kristen Liggett, D. Staheli, J. Strasburg, J. Tagestad, Carrie Varley","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585503","url":null,"abstract":"The VAST Challenge 2017 offered three mini-challenges and a grand challenge dealing with environmental problems potentially caused by human patterns of life and potentially harmful chemically laden effluent plumes being emitted from factory smokestacks. The data provided included traffic patterns, sensor data though a Preserve, information about the Preserve, multispectral imagery and a map to help an ornithology graduate student particularly concerned with the population decrease of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit determine who and what might be responsible. Mini-Challenge 1 focused on analysis of vehicles passing through the Preserve over time. Mini-Challenge 2 looked at data collected by air sampling monitors surrounding nearby factories, along with meteorological readings, to understand potential impacts they may be having on the Pipit. Mini-Challenge 3 required investigation into several months of multi-spectral imagery over the area to understand the Preserve’s general health. The Grand Challenge asked participants to synthesize across all three mini-challenges to create hypotheses of what is happening and what sensible next steps could be. This year’s challenge received 58 submissions and recorded over 1100 unique downloads from 20 countries prior to the submission deadline.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122503227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vijayraj Mahida, Bartosz Kupiec, A. Burks, T. Luciani, G. Marai
{"title":"MC3 - A Web-Based Interactive Image Explorer for Temporal Analysis of Satellite Images (Honorable Mention - Good Interactive Image Explorer)","authors":"Vijayraj Mahida, Bartosz Kupiec, A. Burks, T. Luciani, G. Marai","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585425","url":null,"abstract":"Our web-based image analysis tool for the VAST 2017 Mini-Challenge 3 combines small multiple views of satellite images, linked semantic zooming and image intensity histograms, along with filter controls. The resulting tool allow users to interactively analyze spatio-temporal changes in the preserve area.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123759126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominik Jäckle, Michael Hund, M. Behrisch, D. Keim, T. Schreck
{"title":"Pattern Trails: Visual Analysis of Pattern Transitions in Subspaces","authors":"Dominik Jäckle, Michael Hund, M. Behrisch, D. Keim, T. Schreck","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585613","url":null,"abstract":"Figure 1:Visual analysis of subspace patterns by a series of consecutive pattern transitions between scatterplots. (a) Scatterplots depict subspaces and are grouped and sorted based on similarity. (b) This example shows the pattern transitions in the University data set. Based on a 3D cube like visualization, one can trace sorted patterns in a side and top view on the cube (see Section 7.1).Subspace analysis methods have gained interest for identifying patterns in subspaces of high-dimensional data. Existing techniques allow to visualize and compare patterns in subspaces. However, many subspace analysis methods produce an abundant amount of patterns, which often remain redundant and are difficult to relate. Creating effective layouts for comparison of subspace patterns remains challenging. We introduce Pattern Trails, a novel approach for visually ordering and comparing subspace patterns. Central to our approach is the notion of pattern transitions as an interpretable structure imposed to order and compare patterns between subspaces. The basic idea is to visualize projections of subspaces side-by-side, and indicate changes between adjacent patterns in the subspaces by a linked representation, hence introducing pattern transitions. Our contributions comprise a systematization for how pairs of subspace patterns can be compared, and how changes can be interpreted in terms of pattern transitions. We also contribute a technique for visual subspace analysis based on a data-driven similarity measure between subspace representations. This measure is useful to order the patterns, and interactively group subspaces to reduce redundancy. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by application to several use cases, indicating that data can be meaningfully ordered and interpreted in terms of pattern transitions.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126458396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allison Montroy, Tyler Witter, Christopher Banas, Walter D. Bennette
{"title":"Interactive Visual Analysis of Traffic Patterns: Ecological Impact within a Nature Preserve (VAST Challenge 2017)","authors":"Allison Montroy, Tyler Witter, Christopher Banas, Walter D. Bennette","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585729","url":null,"abstract":"As part of the Visual Analytics Science and Technology Challenge 2017, teams were tasked to hypothesize whether or not the traffic within the Boonsong Lekagul Nature Preserve is affecting the nesting Rose-Crested Blue Pipit. With exploratory data analysis, variable generation, and visual analytic techniques, our team worked to uncover patterns within the preserve. Potentially harmful park activity was uncovered through our analysis.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126256249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Beham, R. Splechtna, Silvana Podaras, D. Gračanin, K. Matkovič
{"title":"MC3 — Modified Frame Differencing of Satellite Images to Detect Temporal Changes in a Natural Preserve","authors":"Michael Beham, R. Splechtna, Silvana Podaras, D. Gračanin, K. Matkovič","doi":"10.1109/VAST.2017.8585476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585476","url":null,"abstract":"Multi spectral imaging from a satellite enables to analyze the health of an natural environment over time. However, low resolution of the satellite images, and a lack of information of human activity and geological information makes it difficult to find and understand all temporal changes. We present an approach to analyze the change over time using satellite images of a natural preserve. We create a map, which contains all changes between two time steps, by using frame differencing. We then exclude uninteresting natural phenomena like clouds. The resulting map is than used to find all changes. Each of the changes is then analyzed in detail by using state of the art algorithm like false-colored images and ratio transformations.","PeriodicalId":149607,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121123568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}