@conference {Wang2014b, title = {Making Sense of Daily Life Data: From Commonalities To Anomalies}, booktitle = {VAST Challenge 2014}, year = {2014}, abstract = {We report the approach and results to solve the VAST 2014 Mini-Challenge 2 (MC2). Based on the commercial interactive visualization software Tableau, we follow the notional model of sensemaking loop for analysis of the massive multi-dimensional, multi-source and time-varying data sets in MC2. Our findings show that we can effectively identify the commonalities and anomalies to understand the GAStech employees{\textquoteright} daily life.}, keywords = {Geo-visualization, human information interaction, Intelligence Analysis, sense-makingloop, visualanalysis}, author = {Wang, Ji and Peng Mi and North, Chris} }