This
Answer Sheet should be used for your VAST Challenge 2015 Mini-Challenge 2
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Marion Smith, University of West Birmingham, smith@westbirmingham.ac.uk PRIMARY
Paul White, University of Northeastern Washington, white@unew.edu
Student Team: Please enter YES or NO
Did you use data from both mini-challenges? Please
enter YES or NO
Provide
a list of analytic tools used. Examples:
Tableau
Excel
Spinviz, developed by the University of West Birmingham CS 459 Information
Visualization class, taught Spring 2011 by Dr. Smith,
and adapted by the student team for the challenge.
Approximately how many hours were spent
working on this submission in total?
Provide
an estimate of the total number of hours worked on this submission by your
entire team.
May we post your submission in the
Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository after VAST Challenge 2015 is complete? Please
enter a YES or NO
Video:
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video. Example:
http://www.westbirmingham.ac.uk/uwb-smith-mc2-video.wmv
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Questions
MC2.1 – Identify those IDs that stand out for their large volumes of communication. For each of these IDs
a. Characterize the communication patterns you see.
b. Based on these patterns, what do you hypothesize about these IDs?
Limit your response to no more than 4 images and 300 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding
images here.
MC2.2 – Describe up to 10 communications patterns in the data. Characterize who is communicating, with whom, when and where. If you have more than 10 patterns to report, please prioritize those patterns that are most likely to relate to the crime.
Limit your response to no more than 10 images and 1000 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding
images here.
MC2.3 – From this data, can you hypothesize when
the crime was discovered? Describe your
rationale.
Limit your response to no more than 3 images and 300 words.
Provide your answer and corresponding
images here.