VAST Challenge
The VAST Challenge is a participation category of the IEEE VAST Symposium (part of VisWeek). The VAST Challenge began as a contest in 2006 with the purpose of pushing the forefront of visual analytics tools using benchmark data sets and establishing a forum to advance visual analytics evaluation methods. We also hope it will speed the transfer of VA technology from research labs to commercial products, and increase the availability of evaluation techniques.Teams may enter one or more mini Challenges independently of the entering the Grand Challenge. ALL teams submitting an entry to a VAST Challenge will be invited to discuss their work during a challenge workshop.
Entries will be judged on both the correctness of the analysis (based on the availability of ground truth) and the utility of the tools in conducting the analysis. Participants have several months to prepare their submissions.
More information about the current challenge is available on the VAST challenge 2012 page
To find out how to become a sponsor for the next challenge see VAST 2012 Challenge Call for Sponsors
Past challenges and other test datasets are available from the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository.