Combining traditional and high-density visualizations in a dashboard to network health monitoring

In this paper we briefly describe the tool submitted to VAST Challenge 2012. It was projected to monitor at a glance the health status of the network of a fictitious bank mainly focusing on machines policy status and activity flags. The tool provides traditional (line and bar graphs) and high-density (existence and percentage) visualizations to evidence trends and patterns, to spot exceptions and causality relationships. We also have provided several analytical interaction options what makes the tool flexible and effective. It is available at http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/∼yussif/VAST2012.html.