Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Experimental Station 14-3b is a bending magnet side station dedicated to X-Ray Imaging and Micro X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of biological, biomedical, materials, and geological samples. Station 14-3b is equipped with specialized instrumentation for XRF...

Rigaku Rapid II Microbeam is one of the most versatile micro-diffraction XRD system in materials analysis, using advanced imaging plate technology for measuring diffraction patterns and diffuse scattering from a wide range of materials. The RAPID™ II Curved Detector X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) System's...

Dataset The dataset will consist of: About 1200 news stories from the Alderwood Daily News plus a few other items collected by the previous investigators A few photos A few maps of Alderwood and vicinity (in bitmap image form) A few files with other mixed materials, e.g. a spreadsheet with voter...

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...

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...