It is Fall of 2004 and one of your analyst colleagues has been called away from her current tasks to an emergency. The boss has given you the assignment of picking up her investigation and completing her task. She has been asked to pursue a line of investigation into some unexpected activities...

Mini Challenge 1: Wiki Editors The Paraiso movement is controversial and is having considerable social impact in a specific area of the world. We have extracted a segment of the Paraiso (the movement) Wikipedia edits page. Please note this is not the Paraiso Manifesto Wiki page which is part of the...

The VAST 2009 Challenge scenario concerned a fictitious, cyber security event. An employee leaked important information from an embassy to a criminal organization. Participants were asked to discover the identity ofthe employee and the structure of the criminal organization. Participants were...

The VAST 2010 Challenge consisted of three mini-challenges (MC) and one Grand Challenge (GC). Each MC had a data set, instructions and a number of questions to be answered. The GC required participants to pull together information from all three data sets and write a debrief summarizing the...

Vastopolis is a major metropolitan area with a population of approximately two million residents. During the last few days, health professionals at local hospitals have noticed a dramatic increase in reported illnesses. Observed symptoms are largely flu≠like and include fever, chills,sweats, aches...

This year’s VAST Challenge focuses on visual analytics applications for both large scale situation analysis and cyber security. We have two mini-challenges to test your analytical skills and confound your visual analytics applications. In the first mini-challenge, (the imaginary) BankWorld's largest...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson Influenza A Virus Experiment ICL105 Metadata The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the host epigenetic response to Influenza A virus (subtype H5N1) infection. Sample data was obtained from human lung adenocarcinoma cells (Calu-3) and...

Last updated on 2024-02-11T22:41:43+00:00 by LN Anderson Influenza A Virus Experiment ICL106 Metadata The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the human host epigenetic response to Influenza A virus (subtype H5N1) infection. Samples were obtained from human lung adenocarcinoma cell line (Calu...

Suspense at the Wildlife Preserve About the VAST Challenge The Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge is an annual contest with the goal of advancing the field of visual analytics through competition. The VAST Challenge is designed to help researchers understand how their software...

The database provides high-resolution (4-km, hourly) information of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and isolated deep convection events (IDC) east of the Rocky Mountains over the contiguous United States from 2004 – 2017. The database contains various characteristics of MCSs and IDC, such as...

These GCAM v4.3 SSP-RCP-GCM Output Databases are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ . GCAM v4.3 SSP-RCP-GCM plausible solution databases. Supplemental dataset to: Graham N.T., M.I. Hejazi, M. Chen, E. Davies, J.A. Edmonds, S.H...

The year 2014 solution files are based on model calibration effort based on inputs and data from Year 2014 as described in Khangaonkar et al. 2018). It includes water surface elevation, currents, temperature and salinity at an hourly interval. These netcdf files with 24 hourly records include...

LDPE tensile tests performed at TAMU 5 specimens per dose/modality; 10 unirradiated control specimens This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Radiological Security. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated by Battelle...

Developing an integrated and readily extensible framework that can bring together a wide variety of models using flexible coupling strategies will require major methodological and computational advances, such as new methods for capturing cross-sectoral feedbacks, decentralized model parameterization...

This data set provides ITS fungal community composition via DNA sequence analysis at the time of peat coring at the South End bog in 2013. These samples were collected outside the experimental enclosures and are pre-treatment with no experimental manipulation. These are part of the Spruce and...