Visualize This! visualization competition
Welcome to the challenge!
What is the Visualize This! Challenge?
Now in its third year, Visualize This! is a Canada-wide competition that aims to celebrate the innovative ways visualization can help researchers explore datasets and answer important scientific questions. Visualize This! is your chance to challenge your creativity, experiment with new visualization tools, and contribute to the growth of data visualization in Canada!
This year’s Visualize This! Challenge is hosted by WestGrid, a regional partner of Compute Canada. Together with the Compute Canada Visualization Team, we want to bring your creative visualization ideas and workflows to life and make them accessible to all Canadian researchers!
To participate in the Challenge, please register your interest.
Datasets
This year the Visualize This! Challenge is comprised of two separate competitions: scientific visualization challenge based on a molecular dynamics simulation dataset, and a humanities visualization challenge based on the Orlando British Women’s Writing Dataset. The two competitions will run independently from each other, with first / second / third prizes in each track, and we expect all participants to choose to compete in one of the tracks.
Both datasets will be available for downloading from October 1 to November 30, 2018. Submissions are due no later than November 30 at midnight (PST).
Prizes
To be eligible for a prize, you must be registered as a participant. Register here.
These are just a few of the prizes we have up for grabs:
- Dell 43” Ultra HD 4K monitor (generously donated by Dell EMC)
- High-capacity external SSDs
- Free registration and subsidized travel to a WestGrid 2019 Research Computing Summer School
- Your visualization showcased on the websites of Compute Canada, WestGrid, Compute Ontario, Calcul Québec, and ACENET.
- Opportunity to present to the research community at an upcoming Compute Canada/WestGrid event
How to Participate
- Register your interest.
- Starting on October 1, download one of the two datasets: the molecular dynamics dataset or the humanities dataset and start working on your visualization.
- Final solutions must be submitted via email no later than November 30, 2018 (11:59 pm PST)
- When you submit, please include both your visualization and the workflow, be it a script, a state file, etc. so that we can reproduce your solution.
- Please do not attach large files (over 1 MB) to the email, but instead share them with us using any of the popular sharing tools such as Dropbox, Google Drive, WestGrid’s ownCloud, transfer.sh, WeTransfer, or a shared cluster filesystem.
- Late submissions will not be considered.
Why is Visualization Important?
Science is producing an unprecedented amount of data on everything from predicting weather and ocean changes to searching for distant galaxies. Visualization tools allow researchers to explore these large datasets interactively without being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data. Ultimately, visualization enables researchers to answer the important scientific questions facing us today.