SDU-Guo-MC1

VAST Challenge 2014
Mini-Challenge 1

 

 

Team Members:

Zhengkai Guo, Shandong University, zhengk.guo@outlook.com     PRIMARY
Haiyang Xue, Shandong University, girlofmuluo@live.com
Aonan Li, Shandong University, Akriox@hotmail.com    
Zhaosong Huang, Shandong University, hzs147258@163.com    


Student Team:  YES

 

Analytic Tools Used:

Echarts - Based on Canvas, pure Javascript chart library that provides intuitive, vivid, interactive, can be personalized custom data visualization charts.

NER - Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER)

Latent Dirichlet allocation(LDA) - A generative probabilistic model for collections of discrete data such as text corpora.

Visio

 

Approximately how many hours were spent working on this submission in total?

200

 

May we post your submission in the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository after VAST Challenge 2014 is complete? YES

 

Video:

 

SDU-MC1

 

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Questions

MC1.1 – Provide a visual representation of the structure of the Protectors of Kronos network, with supporting evidence.

a.       Who are the leaders?

b.      Who is part of the extended network?

c.       How has the group structure and organization changed over time?

d.      Where are the potential connections between the POK and GAStech?

Provide novel visualizations appropriate for communicating key information to the busy leaders of the investigation. Please limit your response to no more than eight images and 500 words.

 

Henk Bodrogi,Carmine Osvaldo,Elian Karel and Silvia Marek are the leaders.

Figure 1: The POK leaders.

Extended network are as follows:

Figure 2: Extended network.

In 1997, seven citizens lead by Henk Bodrogi formed with the goal of bringing their concerns to the central Kronos government. Bodrogi lacked experience in dealing with the Kronosian government and for which he turned to his lifelong friend, Carmine Osvaldo.
After the WFA published these test results about the Tiskele River in several international journals, new members joined the POK. With the increase in POK membership, Bodrogi and Osvaldo turned to Jeroen Karel.
After the protest in August 2001, Bodrogi dicided to step down as leader of the POK. And Elian Karel as his replacement. Within one month of Henk’s departure from the POK, all of the other original seven members of the group also quit and returned home to Elodis.
A large number of under-employed and under-educated young males recruited since 2001.
Elian Karel proved to be a persuasive recruiter and many small activist groups joined forces with the POK from 2002 to 2004.
Mandor Vann has been with the POK since retiring from the Kronos military in 2004.
Elian Karel recruited Silvia Marek and her group to join the POK in 2005.
Elian Karel convinced Lucio Jakab and the other members of Save Our Wildlands to join forces with the POK in 2005.
Elian Karel died in 2009, then Silvia Marek became leader.

Figure 3: Members joined to POK.

Figure 4: POK's structure.

In early 1997, Elodis citizens convened a special town hall meeting to address their concerns about the increasing rate of illness and declining crop production the town had experienced over the last 18 months. Several persons believed it had to be a result of the gas drilling operations several kilometers upstream, where GAStech located on. When the Elodis City Council failed to take action on the citizen’s call for investigation into possible contamination of the river, seven citizens formed POK with the goal of bringing their concerns to the central Kronos government. After a series of movement, CEO Sten Sanjorge, Jr. of GAStech convicts POK as terrorists.

 

MC1.2 – Describe the events of January 20-21, 2014. What is the timeline of events? Please limit your response to no more than ten images and 500 words.

 

Time

Event

Source

9:30

Kronos headquarters live blogging the annual GAStech International meeting.

834.txt

10:00

Abila Fire Department trucks responded to reports of a fire at the GAStech office.

326.txt

10:15

The fire alarm went off at the GAStech.

692.txt

10:20

GAStech employees evacuate the building and a helicopter leaves from the roof of the building.

763.txt

10:30

Abila fire department responds to the alarm. Firemen are seen entering the building.

70.txt

11:00

Kronos employee Edvard Vann was interrogated by Kronos Police and Government officials.

50.txt

11:45

Fire department officials allow GAStech employees to re-enter the building.

376.txt

12:20

The police of Abila has arrived to the centers of GAStech.

355.txt

12:40

Additional police have arrived at GAStech headquarters. They are setting up crowd control barricades around the building.

411.txt

12:45

The police of Abila has cordoned outside of the centers of GAStech with the additional officials.

425.txt

13:00

Police have come and gone from the GAStech building, but up to this point no GAStech employees have left the building.

9.txt

14:00

A government car was allowed through the police perimeter.

289.txt

14:05

The government civil employees ally by marriage of Kronos have arrived to the centers of GAStech.

811.txt

15:05

A police P2o has left the scene, but others remain to the external part to fix the construction while others are still in the construction.

11.txt

15:20

GAStech employees are being allowed to leave the building.

321.txt

15:40

One GAStech employee, reports having seen several people dressed in black in the building before the fire alarm.  These people were not GAStech employees.

381.txt

16:25

GAStech employees continue to trickle out of the building.

321.txt

17:00

Edvard Vann was released.

50.txt

17:30

The police suspect the POK are behind the kidnapping.

838.txt

17:48

Two jets have left the airport of Abila with fourteen - sixteen passengers in them.

487.txt

17:50

The GAStech executives left the building after their meeting this morning and were headed to the reception at the capitol building.

298.txt

18:10

The GAStech executive jet arrived in Tethys a few hours ago. It was quickly refueled and then departed for Abila International Airport.

441.txt

18:30

The GAStech executive jet arrived at the airport.

31.txt

19:45

Carman said that police cannot currently account for the whereabouts of fourteen GAStech employees and have not yet been able to find the caterers.

430.txt

22:00

Tethys federal law enforcement officials and staff from the Tethyn Ministry of Foreign Affairs have arrived in Kronos to assist police in the investigation.

635.txt

23:55

Abila Fire Captain Federigo Accardi announces that it was a false alarm and the building is safe.

540.txt


January 21


Time

Event

Source

9:00

The police of Abila has indicated that the number of the missing has been modified fourteen to ten on the news conference scheduled.

218.txt

14:05

POK claim that ther take responsibility for the kidnapping of GAStech International employees and demand $20 Million from the company. President and CEO, Sten Sanjorge Jr. safely to Tethys. The POK have made a ransom demand of $20M from the President and CEO Sten Sanjorge, Jr.

481.txt
824.txt

 

Figure: The timeline of events.

MC1.3 – Identify at least two possible explanations why the GAStech employees may be missing. What evidence do you have to support each of these explanations? Please limit your response to no more than three additional images and 200 words.

 

We get some trails from the articles.
 In the 7.txt: Edvard Vann, a GAStech - Kronos security guard who was interrogated and released after 6 hours, gave the indication that the Protectors of Kronos were involved or at least suspected as being the perpetrators behind today's events.
 In the 402.txt: ABILA, Kronos - in what described only as an operation of terrorism multiple international employees are possible GAStech to be taken in koperachtige a day slightly irruption of the hoofdkwartier of GAStech Kronos. The early reports of government of civil servants indicate Kronos on 14 people such as missing are mentioned.
 In the 682.txt: Rumors abound in regards to the potentially missing GAStech executives. Some suggest that the newly vested executive group skipped the government reception to avoid the press and left to an unknown resort location to celebrate their recent windfall.
 From all these trails, we get three explanations:
  1. Protectors of Kronos kidnap the employees because of recent GAStech IPO
  2. Kidnap by terrorism
  3. To avoid the press and left to an unknown resort location to celebrate their recent


Figure: Three possible explanations why the GAStech employees may be missing