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Entry Name: "UWB-Smith-MC2"

VAST Challenge 2017
Mini-Challenge 2

Team Members:

Replace this list of team members with the names, affiliations, and email addresses of your own team. Indicate the primary point of contact. Example:

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

Tools Used:

Provide a list of 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 2017 is complete? Please enter a YES or NO

Video

Provide a link to your video. Example:

http://www.westbirmingham.ac.uk/uwb-smith-mc2-video.wmv

Questions

MC2.1 – Characterize the sensors’ performance and operation. Are they all working properly at all times? Can you detect any unexpected behaviors of the sensors through analyzing the readings they capture? Limit your response to no more than 9 images and 1000 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.

MC2.2 – Now turn your attention to the chemicals themselves. Which chemicals are being detected by the sensor group? What patterns of chemical releases do you see, as being reported in the data?

Limit your response to no more than 6 images and 500 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.

MC2.3 – Which factories are responsible for which chemical releases? Carefully describe how you determined this using all the data you have available. For the factories you identified, describe any observed patterns of operation revealed in the data.

Limit your response to no more than 8 images and 1000 words.

Provide your answer and corresponding images here.