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About

The Visual Data Storytelling contest celebrates its 8th year in 2024. This contest aims to encourage students, researchers, and visualization practitioners to demonstrate the value of data visualization through compelling visual data stories.

This contest celebrates the emerging data communication genre, including data storytelling, narrative visualizations, explanatory notebooks, and visual essays. The contest will be held in conjunction with IEEE PacificVis 2024 from April 23-26, 2024 at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

Potential contest entrants are encouraged to review the following events and venues for inspiration:

Entries from previous contests:

Talks about data-driven storytelling:

PacificVis is a unified visualization symposium welcoming all areas of visualization, such as information, scientific, graph, security, and software visualization. Storytellers are invited to submit visual data-driven stories that draw upon any of these areas. In addition, entries that focus on computational journalism and artistic design projects are encouraged. Unlike contests such as the IEEE VAST challenge or the IEEE SciVis Contest, the data for the PacificVis visual data storytelling contest is intentionally left unspecified; storytellers are free to choose any publicly available dataset(s). Similarly, the task that storytellers are to accomplish is to successfully communicate a message or series of messages (i.e., a narrative, a series of insights) using data visualization techniques. The story's themes can draw from any topic, including current affairs, history, natural disasters, and research findings from the sciences and humanities.

Entries may be submitted by teams or individuals from industry and academia. Conference sponsors can participate non-competitively. Submissions must fulfill the requirements explained below.

Requirements

Submissions can take several forms:

Other requirements:

Submission

Submit online through the new Precision Conference System at the PacificVis 2024 Storytelling Contest track.

If you have chosen to submit a URL (i.e., a website submission or an online version of your video or image submission), please add the URL in the abstract field.

Reviewing and Awards

A jury of visualization and data storytelling experts will carefully judge each submission and make the selection of accepted entries. Successful entries will effectively communicate a narrative, message(s), or insight(s) using visual representations of data. Each judge assigned to a submission will give the submission a score from 1 to 5, and they will be asked the following questions:

Accepted submissions will be published on the PacificVis Storytelling Contest website. A selected set of accepted entries will receive awards (Honorable Mention and Best Storytelling Awards). Awards will be presented to the winners during the conference.

Timeline

  Dates
Submission deadline January 25, 2024 (Thu)
Notification date February 22, 2024 (Thu)
Camera-ready submission March 14, 2024 (Thu) March 28, 2024 (Thu)

All dates are Midnight AOE.

Committee

Contest Judges

Name Affiliation
Siming Chen Fudan University, CHN
Keshav Dasu University of California - Davis, USA
Yu Fu Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dae Hyun Kim KAIST, KOR
Qiansheng Li Shanghai University, CHN
Tiemeng Li Beijing University of Posts & Tel., CHN
Yanru Lyu Beijing Technology and Business University, CHN
Eric Mörth Harvard Medical School, USA
Will Sutton Tableau Ambassador | The Information Lab

Contest Chairs


John Thompson
Autodesk Research

Juanjuan Long
Jiangnan University

Contact

Email: pvis_contest@pvis.org