Entry Name: "ASTRI-Mao-MC3"
VAST
Challenge 2014
Mini-Challenge
3
Team
Members:
Minjing MAO, ASTRI, minjingmao@astri.org PRIMARY
Yang Liu, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
(ASTRI), yangliu@astri.org
Ji Hyoun PARK, ASTRI, jhpark@astri.org
Xiuhua WANG, ASTRI, waixiu@hotmail.com
Mengte MIAO, ASTRI, mtmiao@astri.org
Carlos K. F. TSE, ASTRI, carlostse@astri.org
Hua CAI, caihua90@gmail.com
Amir S. Y. LIAO, ASTRI, amirliao@astri.org
Kent K. H. WU, ASTRI, khwu@astri.org
Lei Zhibin James, ASTRI, lei@astri.org
Student Team: NO
Team
Number: 48
Streaming
User ID: minjingmao@astri.org
Analytic
Tools Used:
PostgreSQL
Data-Driven
Documents (D3) Java Library
Approximately how many hours were spent
working on this submission in total?
60 hr.
May we post your submission in the
Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository after VAST Challenge 2014 is complete? YES
Video:
http://www.210.3.53.50/vast/astri-mao-mc3-video.wmv
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Questions
Please note - this challenge
contains a question that is time-dependent.
Within 3 hours of starting the final data stream, send an email to VASTChal2014MC3@vacommunity.org containing your answer to question
MC3.1. Please include a copy of your
answer to MC3.1 in your final answer form also. Your answers to MC3.2 and
MC3.3, along with your video, are due July 8.
The
responses to these questions should be incrementally built, as you (the
contestant) acquire information from each streaming data segment you
receive. Your submission will answer these questions in consideration of
all of the streaming data segments.
MC3.1 -
Within 3 hours after start the final data stream, send an email to VASTChal2014MC3@vacommunity.org containing:
a.
An image showing the streaming data in
your visual analytics tool. In this image, identify an event of interest that
you intend to investigate further.
b. The content of the final message in the data stream
Answer for
a:
The image showing the streaming data in our tool
is given in Fig. 1-1.
Fig. 1-1
The event of interest that we intent to investigate further is the fire at Dancing Dolphin. Considering the other two segments' data, we can easily see the event's importance is very high according to our tool. The event is highlighted in red in bubble chart. The fire is said to be controlled at the beginning of segment 3, but it suddenly escalated. Besides, Dancing Dolphin is an apartment is not full of residents at every floor. Therefore, we think the fire there is suspicious.
Answer for b:
{"type":"mbdata","body":[
{"date":"20140123213200",
"author":"gardener4958", "message":"RT
@KronosStar There has been an explosion from inside
the apartment building. Several people are down. #KronosStar
#DancingDolphinFire #AFDHeroes"
} ]}
MC 3.2 - Describe the timeline of up to
five major events that you discover in the streaming data. This timeline should
include information from all three segments of the data stream if needed.
Use specific microblog records and call center data to support
your description, but do not simply mimic back the data stream. Provide a
concise description of important participants, locations and durations.
Focus your response on the events themselves, rather than on the individuals
reporting the events. Please limit your answer to no more than ten images and
1500 words.
We find four major events in the streaming data:
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POK Rally;
-
fire at the Dancing Dolphin Apartment;
-
vehicle accident between a black van and a bicycle;
-
gunfire and subsequent events after the black van was
stuck at the Gelato Galore.
Using our proposed tool, the timeline of each event is
easy to see. We describe the details of each event as follows.
(1) POK
Rally
Fig. 2-1
As shown in Fig. 2-1, we can see
that at 17:00:00 the
leader of POK Sylvia Marek gave an opening remark to start the POK Rally at the
Abila City Park. The location of “Egeou St/ Parla St” is selected as the event location. This is
because it is closed to the “Abila City Park” on the tourist map.
Fig. 2-2
As shown in Fig. 2-2, we can see
the progress and the arrangement of POK Rally around 17:15:10: special guest
Dr. Newman was invited to give a talk with Prof. Stefano and Lucio Jacab, and the band Victor-E was invited to play music.
Besides, we can also find there were more than 1000 people attending the rally.
Due to the word count limit, we
only mark down some important progresses of the event. During the rally, heavy
police presented but there was no violence reported. At 17:30:00, APD closed Parla St from Egeou St North to Alm St due to size of rally. At 17:32:00, Viktor-E talked
about their song “River Soldiers” and played it. Around 17:50:00, Prof. Stefano
gave a talk about the interdependence of corporate success and social
wellbeing. After Prof. Stefano, Dr. Newman began her remarks. Sylvia Marek gave
the closing remarks at 19:05:54, which indicates the end time of POK Rally.
After the rally ended, Viktor-E played for one more hour.
(2) Fire
at the Dancing Dolphin Apartment
As we can see from Fig. 2-3, a
fire started at the Dancing Dolphin Apartment a little earlier than 18:40:00
(as shown in this image). We found a witness “dangermice”
reporting the whole progress of fire. This people’s microblog data include the
longitude and latitude. With such information, we can check the fire location
via the Geo Spatial as provided. We can see the fire location in Fig. 2-4,
which also lists all the locations for the other three events.
Fig. 2-3
Fig. 2-4
Besides, we can find another
witness “Onlythetruth” as shown in Fig. 2-5, he
expressed the unsatisfactory with GasTech using the words
to “burn the foreign capitalist pig”. It implies the Dancing Dolphin Apartment
is close related with the company GasTech, which is
an important clue.
Fig. 2-5
The progress of the fire can be
described as follows. Around 18:45:00, it was said that the smoke was from
first two floors of Dancing Dolphin Apartments. And Abila Fire Department
indicated Dancing Dolphin apartment is a six story structure with the bottom
three stories currently occupied later. Police cleared the area and rescued the
residents in Dancing Dolphin around 19:00:00. Around 20:00:00, it was reported
there was an injured firefighter, who was sent to the hospital later. Around
20:30:00, this fire was reported to be under control. But later, the top floors
have collapsed into the first floor. At 20:40:00, Dancing Dolphin Fire was
confirmed suddenly escalated. At 20:50:00, Fire officials have begun control
measures on surrounding buildings. At 21:25:00, Abila Fire Department reported
that the Dancing Dolphin fire was still not completely controlled. At 21:30:00,
an explosion was reported at the Dancing Dolphin Apartment.
We can see that the fire was
firstly controlled, but suddenly escalated and led to explosion at the end of
the streaming data. It means the fire was still going on after 21:30:00. Its
sudden change in the progress needs to be investigated further.
(3) Vehicle
accident between a black van and a bicycle
As we can see from the Fig. 2-6,
at 19:19:00 a vehicle accident was reported on Souliou
street. Simultaneously, we capture one witness of this event with the author
name of “brewvebeenserved” (as shown in Fig. 2-7),
who reported the same accident in more details: “That crazy driver hit a guy on
a bike outside our shop”. This micro-blog message contains abundant
information: the driver is crazy and the author is the shop owner. Combined
with his/her GPS information, we can confirm that the accident’s location is
the Katerina's Café using Geo Spatial, which is marked in the Fig. 2-4. We
evidence ourselves the location is correct with another author’s message around
the same time: “A bicyclist has been hit on the 500 block of Schaber near Katerina's Cafe and @Brew'veBeenServed”.
Fig. 2-6
Fig. 2-7
After the accident, around
19:24:00, Abila Police Department issued description of hit and run vehicle: a
black van with partial license plate L829. In the following 20 minutes, we can
continuously see the call center records of “SUSPICIOUS OCCUPIED VEHICLE-BLACK
VAN” with different locations. It means that the black van ran away after
hitting the bicycle, and had been traced by the police.
(4) Gunfire and subsequent events after the black
van was stuck at the Gelato Galore
As shown in Fig. 2-8, it was
reported that the police have cornered the erratic driver in a parking lot near
the intersection of Alexandrias and Ithakis and shots fired at 19:40:00. Later it was reported
a policeman got hit.
Fig. 2-8
Fig. 2-9
As shown in Fig. 2-9, around
20:00:00, we find that the men on the van have hostages, and the standoff
between the van guys and police started. Following up, the police sent out the
SWAT to prepare rescuing the hostages at 19:55:00. At 20:11:21, it was said
that negotiations began between shooter and police. Finally around 21:20:00, it
was reported that one male and one female from the van surrendered and 2 female
hostages were set free.
MC 3.3 – Select one of your five major
events from question MC 3.2 that you consider to be most likely to provide
additional clues to the investigation of the GASTech
disappearances. Describe the roles of the participants.
Describe how other events you identified in MC3.2 may have influenced your
selected event. Provide a hypothesis and evidence as to whom you suspect as
being directly involved in the GAStech
disappearances, either as perpetrators or victims. Please limit your
response to no more than five images and 500 words.
From
the analysis so far, Dancing Dolphin Fire is the event which is most likely to
provide additional clues to investigation of the GASTech
disappearances. OnlytheTruth is the witnesses of this
event. One of his microblog gives us a clue that Dancing Dolphin Apartment has
a close relationship with GASTech. Another witness is
dangermice, who follows all the things happened in
the Dancing Dolphin fire. We can see that the fire begins from the second floor
at 18:45:00. The fire was reported to be under control around 20:30:00. But
later, the fire suddenly escalated. At about 21:25:00, the fire was still not
been completely controlled. Even an explosion happened at the Dancing Dolphin
Apartment after a few minutes. Participant martaflores
was in the apartment 301 before the fire happens. And GreyCatCollectibles
first noticed that something was on fire.
We
think the vehicle accident may have influence Dancing Dolphin fire. After the
Dancing Dolphin Apartment was on fire, only a few minutes later a van hit a
bicyclist near Katerina’s Café. As shown in Fig. 2-4, we can see that
Katerina’s café was quite near to the Dancing Dolphin Apartment, we can assume
that someone in the accident may be involved in the fire of Dancing Dolphin
Apartment, who was in a hurry to escape from the crime scene but hit a bicycle.
GreyCatCollectibles publish
microblogs said that he hasn’t heard from Rachel in days, hope she’s off on vaca somewhere and not in her apt. We can guess that some
missing people from GASTech are living in Dancing
Dolphin Apartment. And Rachel was one of the victim in this disappearances.
Fig. 3-1
Fig. 3-2
Fig. 3-3