Entry Name: UKON-Hepp-MC1

VAST Challenge 2015
Mini-Challenge 1

Team Members:

Eren Cakmak, University Konstanz, eren.cakmak@uni-konstanz.de

Thomas Hepp, University Konstanz, thomas.hepp@uni-konstanz.de PRIMARY

Alexander Gärtner, University Konstanz, alexander.gaertner@uni-konstanz.de

Fabian Fischer, University Konstanz, fabian.fischer@uni-konstanz.de

Juri Buchmüller, University Konstanz, buchmueller@dbvis.inf.uni-konstanz.de

Daniel Keim, University Konstanz, daniel.keim@uni-konstanz.de

Student Team: Yes

Did you use data from both mini-challenges? Yes

Analytic Tools Used:

Tableau

KNIME

Own Visualization created for VAST Challenge 2015

· Link: http://vc2015-group2.dbvis.de/

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

450 hours

May we post your submission in the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository after VAST Challenge 2015 is complete? Yes

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Questions

MC1.1 – Characterize the attendance at DinoFun World on this weekend. Describe up to twelve different types of groups at the park on this weekend.

a. How big is this type of group?

b.Where does this type of group like to go in the park?

c. How common is this type of group?

d.What are your other observations about this type of group?

e. What can you infer about this type of group?

f. If you were to make one improvement to the park to better meet this group’s needs, what would it be?

Limit your response to no more than 12 images and 1000 words.

Overview found groups through clustering. The more detailed version can be found in our online visualization.

a. Average group size: 4.4

b. Visit on average 4 Thrill-Rides, 1.5 Kiddie-Rides and Rides-for-Everybody.

c. 5%*

d. Enters park at 10 am and leave at 4 pm, visiting 10 attractions. They have a normal amount of movements and visit the second show.

e. Persons who want to see the VIP and spent some time in the park as they are already there.

f. Clear direction instructions to the show and the pavilion.

a. Average group size: 4.4

b. Visit on average 5 Thrill-Rides and 2 Kiddie-Rides and 1.5 Rides-for-Everybody.

c. 2.5%*

d. Enters park at 2 pm and leave at 7-8 pm, visiting 10 attractions. They have a normal amount of movements and visit the second show.

e. Persons who decide late in the day to try out the park and walk around a bit.

f. A handout for people with few time showing the best attractions voted by visitors.

a. Average group size: 3.7

b. Visit on average 25 Thrill-Rides, 6.5 Rides-for-Everybody and 2 shows.

c. 13.5%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 8 pm, visiting 35 attractions. They have a lot of movements.

e. Persons who want to spend as much time as possible with the Thrill-Rides. They come early and stay till late. The Rides-for-Everybody could be explained as they want to try out the ones that are close to Thrill-Rides.

f. Make the distance between the Thrill-Rides as small as possible.

a. Average group size: 36

b. Visit on average 7.5 Thrill-Rides, 3.5 Kiddie-Rides and 3.5 Rides-for-Everybody. They visit the shows and the Pavilion.

c. 7%*

d. Enters park at 9 am and leave at 11 pm, visiting 18 attractions. They have an average amount of movements.

e. Visits that are organized by football clubs, maybe the old one from the VIP.

f. Additional entries for large groups at attractions in order to not split up the groups.

a. Average group size: 3.2

b. Visit on average 8 Thrill-Rides, 3 Kiddie-Rides, 3 Rides-For-Everyone and the shows.

c. 40%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 21 pm, visiting as much as possible in the park.

e. It is the common visitor that spends the whole day in the park and tries to get to ride as much as possible, also tries to visit special attractions like the shows.

f. As they are visiting all attractions it would be best if everything goes smooth like reducing waiting time at attractions by guiding people via navigation system in the park.

a. Average group size: 9

b. Visit on average 9 Thrill-Rides, 4 Kiddie-Rides and Rides-For-Everyone. Visit the shows and the pavilion.

c. 18%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 21 pm, trying to ride as much attractions as possible. They are the largest groups visiting the park.

e. Groups that make a day trip from clubs maybe, as they are rather big for only friends.

f. It is the same suggestion as for group 5.

a. Average group size: 3.2

b. Visit on average 2.5 Kiddie-Rides, 5 Thrill-Rides and 6.5 Rides-For-Everyone. Visit shows.

c. 15%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 11 pm. They have few movements and are small groups walking through the park riding various attractions.

e. Groups consisting of either people in the middle age or families with teen children as they walk slowly through the park but still ride different kinds of attraction groups.

f. In case of families waiting points at exits of attractions would help to find each other and don’t block the exit for other people.

a. Average group size: 4

b. Visit on average 18.5 Thrill-Rides and 7 Rides-For-Everyone. The others are below 2.2.

c. 11.2%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 21 pm, having a lot of movements. They are mainly interested in Thrill-Ride attractions and visit them a lot as they have a high check-in rate.

e. These groups mainly consist of young friends that want to have fun and therefore visit the Thrill-Rides a lot.

f. As they move around very fast and ride as much as possible a way for them to ride multiple times in a row would be beneficial.

a. Average group size: 1

b. Visit on average 26.2 Thrill-Rides.

c. 1%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 11 pm. They are only interested in Thrill-Rides having the most movements.

e. Single person that goes just for the excitement and adrenalin into the park. Could also be a person who tests rollercoasters to publish it for other adrenalin junkies.

f. Reducing the waiting time for attractions and the way from one exit to another entry of an attraction.

a. Average group size: 1

b. Visits on average 1.1 Thrill-Rides.

c. 0.2%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 14 pm. They are barley moving or visiting attractions.

e. Outlier explained in MC1.2 and MC1.3

f. Not needed as they are not regular visitors.

a. Average group size: 1

b. Visits on average 9.5 Thrill-Rides and 2 Rides-For-Everyone.

c. 0.8%*

d. Enters park at 8 am and leave at 14 pm visiting mainly Thrill-Rides.

e. Persons that have only time in the morning to visit the park and like the excitement of the Thrill-Rides.

f. A map with the most efficient way through all Thrill-Rides.

*of all visitors.

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MC1.2 – Are there notable differences in the patterns of activity on in the park across the three days? Please describe the notable difference you see.

Limit your response to no more than 3 images and 300 words.

1.There is an increase in visitors. Friday has 3557, Saturday 6410 and Sunday 7569 visitors.

2.Galactosaurus-Rage is visited all day long on each day expect on Friday there are less check-ins at 7-8pm.

3.Liggement Fix-Me-Up usually has a low frequency of check-ins except a peak on Friday from 1-3pm.

4.On Sunday Wrightiraptor-Mountain is the only attraction at the end of the day with check-ins, while on Saturday several attractions have visitors at 11pm.

5.While the check-in peaks on all three days are equal for 8am, there are different peaks from 1-3pm over the days. The peak on Friday occurs at Top-Entry, Saturday at Top-Entry and Right-Entry and on Sunday at Entry-Left.

6.On Friday we only have check-in and movement data until 8pm while for Saturday and Sunday up until 11pm. While we first thought this has to do with the crime it was later told that the data itself wasn´t complete for that day.

7.Looking at the Heatmap for attractions, it is shown that on Friday the Thrill Rides are visited more frequently, compared to the overall check-ins, than on the other two days.

8.Several IDs visit the park every day and show different patterns. IDs 268856, 367517, 1325405 and 1494148 visit a lot Thrill Rides on Friday and move around a lot. On Saturday they have 25% of check-ins and movement compared to Friday. On Sunday half the values from Friday.

9.Another ID visiting all weekend is 1914254 with 45 check-ins mainly Thrill Rides compared to Saturday with 16 check-ins on Thrill Rides and Rides-For-Everyone and 25 check-ins on Sunday at Kiddie Ride attractions.

The Chord-diagram shows ID 1914254, mentioned above, on Friday and Sunday.

MC1.3 – What anomalies or unusual patterns do you see? Describe no more than 10 anomalies, and prioritize those unusual patterns that you think are most likely to be relevant to the crime.

Limit your response to no more than 10 images and 500 words.

The anomalies are sorted by relevance to the crime

1.We found the bodyguards of the star, they are 8.5 hours in the park, entering always from Entry-right at 08:45am and they leave at 5:15pm except for Sunday (0:15pm). They are usually going to the shows which are at 10:00am and 03:00pm. After one show they return to Entry-Right and they enter again for the second show.

2.There is a visit pattern for the Creighton-Pavilion which is closed from 9:30am - 11:30am and from 2:30pm - 4:30pm. On Sunday there are no check-ins after 12pm.

3.ID: 1983765 appears twice at the same time at different places on Saturday from ~8:15pm until ~8:40pm. One tracked person walks from Keimosaurus-Big-Spin to Entry-Left (Camp-side) and the other tracked person from Creighton-Pavilion to the Entry-Left. On Sunday, he visits the Creighton-Pavilion again. Therefore this ID is suspicious. Maybe he tries to fake another ID but it does not work.

4.The peak in the communication in Wet-Land and Entry-Corridor data on Sunday is probably related to the crime. There is also a peak in the check-in at Creighton-Pavilion at 11:44:22am on Sunday.

5.ID: 1620233 has 3 Check-ins at Creighton-Pavilion at 11:39:58am, 11:51:54am, 11:59:34am on Sunday shortly before it closes.

Other suspicious IDs:
416790, 461004, 1502920, 885725 ,1748876, 1291721, 441755, 1512355, 2040751, 27471, 576974, 1412390, 1884134, 330183, 525464, 645268, 1706569, 1392457, 1723510 because they all visit the Pavilion several times before it closes at the day of the incident.
The ID 1187304 is for 1.5 hours in the park. The visitor comes at 8am and visits 2 times the Wrightiraptor-Mountain.

6.ID: 657863 visits the park on Friday visiting Ichthyoroberts-Rapids and disappears. During park opening on Saturday, he walks at 8 am straight from Scholtz-Express to Main-Entrance leaving the park. As mentioned in the given additions, Ichthyoroberts-Rapids is a water-ride where visitors are able to go inside and watch other riders. Maybe the phone is lost or stolen and left at Scholtz-Express. The jump from Ichthyoroberts-Rapids to Scholtz-Express may be caused due to corrupted Friday-data.

7.ID: 898576 enters on Sunday and stays until 10:19am, checking in at Kaufs-Lost-Canyon-Escape and afterwards never appears again. While he is in the park he moves with the IDs 246969, 646143 and 734180.

8.There is no second show at the Grinosaurus-Stage on Sunday but people try to visit it.

9.ID: 1600469 is part of the bodyguards mentioned in Anomaly 1. The data-tracking seems to be corrupted, because he sometimes checks-in twice at one sensor during his way to the Grinosaurus-Stage on 09:00am - 09:18:33pm.

10. Bodyguard 1787551 has half the movements compared to the other bodyguards but always walks the same ways. He seems to walk straight and the other bodyguard seem to walk more zigzag.