In this paper, we examine reviews for the entries to the 2009 Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium Challenge. By analyzing these reviews we gained a better understanding of what is important to our reviewers, both visualization researchers and professional analysts. This is a bottom-up approach to the development of heuristics to use in the evaluation of visual analytic environments. The meta-analysis and the results are presented in this paper.
['Jean Scholtz']
Developing qualitative metrics for visual analytic environments