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Posted June 14, 2011

DataVis Competition Heats Up

Just over a month ago, Information Designer & Author, David McCandless tweeted about some data he’d been collecting about the shocking lack of ethnic and socio economic diversity at Britain’s elite universities.  Unfortunately, due to a busy schedule, David had been unable to visualise the data himself.

Having ventured into the world of information design once or twice ourselves, and obviously being passionate about the prospects of students in Britain, we thought we'd offer up a prize to see what creative ways people could present this important information.  David agreed to the proposal, and so the data visualisation competition was born .

The competition has received some strong coverage online from sites like .net magazine and Computer Arts , as well as a number of bloggers in the burgeoning data visualisation scene.  If you want to know more about data visualisation, a good starting point would be the blog of competition judge Andy Kirk, called Visualising Data.

So what skills do you need for data visualisation?
 

Data visualisation requires the skill of a statistician, a designer and a journalist.  Not an easy combination to come by, yet it’s a scene of rapid growth in both online and offline media.

The competition closes on Monday 20 th June 2011, and with a week to go, we already have our first five entries.

We’re looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

The winners will be announced both in the press and on the Postgrad Blog in 2 weeks time .
 

Good luck to all our entrants!
 

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