Visual analytics for situation awareness of a large-scale network: VAST 2012 Mini Challenge #1 award: “Effective video presentation”

Our entry for the VAST 2012 Mini Challenge #1 consisted of a homegrown visual analytic tool that displays the health and policy status of a large-scale network. By putting ourselves into the shoes of an analyst, we defined key dimensions of the data, and developed visualizations for each of them. Using our tool, we were able to identify several areas of concern within the provided data. We presented our findings in a video that depicts the visual analytic interaction sequence of two analysts using the tool to explore the data set. The accompanying audio is set as an informal narrative between the two authors to increase the level of audience engagement.