Black in Data Challenge

Judging

Submissions were judged on their message, design, and clarity.

Judges

Dr. Ruth Agbakoba has a rich background working at the forefront of innovation leading on the deployment of the UK’s First AI supported EHR integrated Clinical Trials Discovery Platform.

Simone Webb is a third year PhD student in Bioinformatics and Immunology at Newcastle University. She is interested in using coding to understand how our immune systems develop.

Markia Smith is a 3rd year PhD student in Pathobiology and Translational Science. She uses integrative genomic approaches to study how social and environmental factors impact cancer health disparities.

BlackInData Visualization Challenge

The Data Visualization Society is collaborating with BlackInData by providing our platform to present the #BlackInDataViz challenge as part of #BlackInDataWeek!

BlackInData represents a community of academics, professionals, and students working in various areas of data. They gather to support, learn from, and share opportunities with one another, and ultimately increase representation of Black people in data fields.

Introduction

In partnership with BlackInData, we are co-hosting the “Black In Data Visualisation Challenge” to showcase the data visualisation skills of the many talented people within the Black/African Diaspora across different interests. This competition serves to make room for all visualizations that demonstrate something that you are passionate about – we welcome submissions that highlight culture, expose social injustice, and/or any of your special interests.

Please feel free to use any dataset and data visualisation method for your submission for this competition. Below you will find links to four recommended data sources to use, but you are more than welcome to use a data source of your choosing.

Eligibility criteria

All competition entrants must identify as a person of the Black diaspora from any part of the world. In submitting your image to us, you confirm that you have performed the data analysis to produce the image yourself. You also give permission for us to share the image with our judging panel, host your image on the Data Visualization Society online gallery (with your name accredited), and to share the image on the Black In Data twitter (with your name accredited).