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3 February 2007

"Visualizing Network Dynamics" competition

A quick announcement of the "Visualizing Network Dynamics competition", organized by Katy Börner, Stephen Uzzo, Marcia Rudy, Elisha Hardy (truth in advertising, I am one of the judges).

Below are excerpts from the announcement.

The "Visualizing Network Dynamics" competition will be held as an integral part of NetSci07. The competition will invite researchers, practitioners, and educators from such diverse disciplines as anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science but also art and design to submit the best-of visualizations of evolving networks, activity patterns over networks or combinations of the two. Competition applications will comprise large resolution static images or video footage together with a detailed explanation of datasets used, analysis or modeling techniques applied, and visualization design. Applicants will also be asked to list and explain major insights gained and to discuss the value the visualization might have for educational purposes.

The competition aims to harvest the best examples of meaningful (as opposed to purely artistic) network dynamics visualizations, to raise the bar for the documentation and communication of the process applied to generate those visualizations, and to sensitize people to the importance of visualization for formal and informal education and the communication of science in general.

Correspondingly, visualizations will be judged based on:

* Truthfulness of the data representation
* How well the visualization serves the needs of its ‘clients’
* Quality of data preparation and analysis
* Layout and design of the visualization
* The significance of insights gained
* Educational value
* Visual appeal
* Description of work

Awards

The Top-3 winning entries will get free registration to the NetSci Conference 2007 and cash prices in amounts of $100, $200, and $300 that are sponsored by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.

The Top-25 winning competition entries will be printed in large format and displayed at the Network Science Workshop and Conference. Winning animations will be projected in large format.

A DVD with all valid entries and their accompanying information will be shared with all Conference attendees. All valuable entries will also be made available online as a general, free resource for anybody interested in the study or communication of dynamic networks.

Posted by David Lazer at February 3, 2007 2:32 PM

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