Hi all,
There are a number of interesting data visualization contests going on right now that I thought I’d bring your attention to. There are contests for people with different interests: volunteering, healthcare, online transparency and neuroscience. Prizes are fairly generous this time around – trips to conferences, cash, products and software. Here goes:
1. Tableau’s Civic Data Viz Contest
- Challenge: “use Tableau Public to visualize data about your community” (global)
- Data: links to various sources provided here
- Winner gets: 3-day trip to TCC13 in Washington D.C. (crowd favorite wins $500)
- Deadline: June 24, 2013
2. Visualizing.org’s Visualizing Online Takedown Requests
- Challenge: “We challenge you to visualize the removal requests in Google’s Transparency Report”
- Data: Google Transparency Report
- Winner gets: $3,250 (2nd place gets $1,250, 3rd place gets $500)
- Deadline: June 27, 2013, 11:59 pm EDT
- Challenge: “turn the raw data of ‘civic health’ into useful applications and visualizations that have direct impact on public decision-making” (U.S)
- Data: files available for download here
- Winner gets: “2013 Prizes will be announced throughout the Challenge” (check the Prizes site here)
- Deadline: July 28, 2013, 11:59 pm EDT
4. 2013 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest
- Challenge: “help identify spatial and temporal gene expression patterns in the developing mouse brain”
- Data: Download here
- Winner gets: Free full registration for the VIZ 2013 Conference
- Deadline: July 31, 2013
5. Visualizing.org’s Visualizing Hospital Price Data
- Challenge: “We challenge you to visualize the hospital price data to create greater transparency in the healthcare field”
- Data: Medicare Provide Charge Data for Inpatient and Outpatient
- Winner gets: $9,000 (interactive) and $6,000 (static) – see website for full list of prizes totaling $30,000
- Deadline: August 25, 2013, 11:59 pm EDT
Best of luck! Let me know if I missed any.
Ben
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