Palantir Government

The IEEE VAST Challenge 2009 is over and the awards are in. We had another strong year, scoring two awards.

1. Grand Challenge: Analyst’s Tool Choice
2. Intuitive Traffic Visualization and Video Description of the Analysis Process

Out of 48 submissions, only 3 Grand Challenge awards were given this year. Below is our video submission, and you can find out more about VAST, over at our Tech Blog.

A selection of choice quotes from the judges:

• An award for “highly usable integrated exploration environment”, “efficient analytic exploration platform” or something along these lines would be appropriate.
• Survey Question: How much novelty do you see in this submission (data processing, visualization, interaction, hypothesis generation or evaluation, overall process, etc.)? Answer: More so than novelty was the extremely efficient solution approach to this challenge, much more so than other solutions.
• The submission shows two things very clearly: One, it shows the analytical process as being a multi-faceted, simultaneous processing of different information that is quite common among analysts. Two, it shows how multiple perspectives can be displayed on a single monitor, enabling the analyst to visualize what his mind is analyzing. Outstanding!