VAST Challenge 2013
VAST Challenge Workshop Agenda is now available. Please visit the agenda page for more information.
There is something for everyone in this year’s VAST Challenge. This year’s challenge presents three distinct mini-challenges to test your skills. These challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia. Creative approaches to visual analytics are encouraged.
The Mini-Challenges


Which Mini-Challenges Are Right for You?
- Mini-Challenge 1 is a movie prediction challenge. Visual analytics researchers and developers should find this challenge easy to understand.
- Mini-Challenge 2 is a design challenge. This challenge is appropriate for anyone with a background in user experience, human-computer interaction, graphic design, illustration, or the visual arts.
- Mini-Challenge 3 is a challenge in visual analytics for cyber security. This challenge is appropriate for visual analytics researchers and developers. It may be helpful to have some network security experience, but this is not required. We encourage you to team with a colleague with cyber security expertise if you would like to get a greater understanding of the data.
Important Information about the VAST Challenge
Participants are welcome to enter one, two, or all three of the Mini-Challenges. Entries may be submitted by teams or individuals. Anyone not associated with the VAST Challenge Committee may submit an entry. This year, the instructions for submission differ by Mini-Challenge.Submission deadline is July 8, 2013 at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC/GMT -9 hours).
Entries will be judged based on the criteria appropriate to the specific Mini-Challenge. Award winners will receive a recognition certificate. Award winning participants will be contacted by August 10, 2013.
All participants are also invited to submit a two-page summary of their entry for inclusion in the IEEE VIS 2013 electronic conference proceedings.
All participants are invited to attend the VAST Challenge 2013 Workshop, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia. At this workshop, challenge organizers, participants, and conference attendees come together to discuss their work on this year's Challenge. Award certificates are presented during the workshop. The workshop includes presentations by selected participants, invited speakers, a poster session for the participants, and other activities.
Following the workshop, the submissions will be posted to the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository. Submissions from previous years can also be found in this repository.
For questions, please email vast_challenge at ieeevis.org.
VAST Challenge Committee Chairs
- Kris Cook, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
- Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory