giCentre, City, University of London #1017

Jo Wood

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2022-10-16T14:55:00Z
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VAST Challenge: Exploring urban dynamics with literate visual analytics. This presentation describes how the VAST Challenge Two task was completed using interactive notebooks to document the visual analytic and design process. The work won the VAST Award for "Comprehensive Challenge 2 Solution".

The live footage of the talk, including the Q&A, can be viewed on the session page, VAST Challenge: Opening, Challenge 1, and Start of Challenge 2.

Abstract

The VAST 2022 Challenge 1 put us in place of an urban planning analyst for the fictitious city Engagement, Ohio. Given a large, interlinked dataset of its citizens, businesses and activities, we were tasked to assemble a summary of the state of Engagement to serve as basis for future investments. We present a visual analytics application to interactively explore this complex dataset using a combination of dashboards and a 2D/3D map. Our application uses interactive visualizations to iteratively build and analyze subgroups, sync their abstract data with spatial positions, and detect clusters and patterns in the data.