Earthquake Damage Report Interactive Dashboard Using Bayesian Structural Time Series and Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes

Earthquake Damage Report Interactive Dashboard addresses Mini Challenge 1 of VAST Challenge 2019. The project uses interactive visual analytics to report and summarize crowd-sourced damage reports temporally and spatially. We modelled the reports with Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) and encoded uncertainties in the reports visually with value-suppressing uncertainty palettes (VSUPs). The interactive visualization was developed with Vega and VueJS. We performed further analyses in Tableau. The dashboard and the challenge submission package can be found at https://vast2019.maxnadul.com.