VAST Challenge 2018: Suspense at the Wildlife Preserve

The 2018 VAST Challenge returns to the (fictional) city of Mistford and the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve to pose three MiniChallenges surrounding the nefarious Kasios Furniture Company and the fate of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit. For Mini-Challenge 1, participants performed classification on a collection of bird song recordings to help experts understand the changing population dynamics within the preserve. Mini-Challenge 2 introduced new hydrology evidence in a spatiotemporal challenge, asking participants to trace the transmission of various chemicals through the preserve's waterways. In Mini-Challenge 3, participants took their analysis global, examining suspicious connections in Kasios' international business dealings in a massive graph challenge.