Vesta

Visualization and Exploratory Space-Time data Analysis

What is Vesta?

Vesta is a powerful tool to visualize temporal and spatial trends in various formats. Vesta is an evolution of our software, SpaceStat. Vesta has a new, user-friendly design that makes for smooth data importing, exploring spatial patterns, and making predictions and time forecasting.

We have expanded the foundation BioMedware created for geospatial data analysis in a way that is familiar to the seasoned geostatistician yet accessible for non-expert users with detailed support material.

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Introducing Vesta 2.6!

This newest update to Vesta is the latest innovation in GIS, mapping, and data visualization. It’s the same intuitive software, but with new upgrades that will make your workflow even more dynamic. Users can now utilize compositional joinpoint regression analysis (beta), time plots, categorical variables in variography and kriging, customizable point size in maps, and modeling of uncertainty using indicator kriging. See Vesta Features for more details.

Who can use Vesta?

Vesta allows users to make statistical inferences about data patterns that can inform policy and health decisions. The Vesta software can be used for infrastructure, cancer registries, urban planning, agricultural optimization, or to analyze the exposome.

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Infrastructure industry professionals often have a need to identify service lines that might be responsible for lead in water. Using Vesta, individual addresses and/or service lines are assigned a probability of lead contribution and a model is generated to help make informed decisions on what areas to further assess.

Cancer registries frequently explore ways to better communicate trends in cancer rates. Researchers can model cancer rates over time and space using our software. Being able to account for geographic variances in temporal trends can greatly improve health directives and policies.

Urban planning engineers explore ways to improve our living environment, including reducing the effects of environmental overheating. Professionals can track temperature trends and strategically “cool” a local environment by knowing where to have parks/forest areas as these generally keep the environment cooler.

How can farmers and agricultural enterprises optimize a plan for fertilizing crops? By mapping soil properties and crop yields, stakeholders can track how these factors change over time and make decisions for future fertilization schedules and/or watering schedules.

Air and land pollution is an ever-growing concern. How can a health environment exposome be quantified and interpreted? A person’s health is affected and influenced by the totality of their exposures over their lifetime. Local data (air pollutants, water contaminants, industrial facility proximity, access to health facilities, etc.) can be used to create an “exposome” map and thus inform stakeholders about the range of factors influencing human life outcomes and make exposure assessments.

Vesta Features

Accessing all Vesta features does not require a coding background. Vesta features include:

Compositional Joinpoint Regression

Model time series of related variables with compositional joinpoint analysis

Highlight Observations

Highlight the same observations on multiple graphs (i.e., maps, histograms, scatterplots) by linking and brushing

Customizable Point Size in Maps

Change the size of points in your maps so you can better highlight the most important features in your data

Time Plots

Track how your data evolves over time with beautiful, easy-to-interpret plots

Easy Analysis

Visualize time-dependent behavior of graphs and summary statistics by simply moving a time slider bar.

Missing Data

Handle missing data in visualizations and calculations during data import

Exploratory Analysis

Conduct exploratory analysis through the visualization of data in table, map, histogram, scatterplot, heatmap, time plot, and boxplot.

Categorical Variables

Use categorical variables to create variograms and perform spatial interpolation

Get Vesta

With our latest release of Vesta 2.6, a free 30-day trial license is available to all users, even those who have accessed a trial license in the past.

Vesta is offered in three 1-year license options. We also offer volume discounts and multi-year agreement options. Click here for details and appropriate user information.

Once you acquire a Vesta license, check your email for the license key to install the software.

Contact us at support@biomedware.com with any questions about your license.

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