SOTI Challenge 2021

SOTI Challenge 2021

Results are in! The State of the Industry Survey Challenge winners have arrived!!

Now we celebrate! There are first, second, and third place winners for both exploratory and explanatory visualizations and a winner for the beauty category (all highlighted below). This year we have decided not to award an accessibility prize; details of this can be found in a forthcoming article. However, we do highlight a few entries with accessibility honorable mentions for their efforts in making progress toward accessible visualizations.

Data

The 2021 Data Visualization SOTI Survey has responses to 60+ questions and was taken by over 2,100 people. It covers professional details like roles and tasks, tools and charts, experience, compensation, work contexts, challenges and changes (COVID-19 specific and otherwise), and more, plus demographic details. Naturally, we want to visualize it!

2021 survey data

2021 Reference PDF

2021 Survey preview

Previous years data

Judges

Entries are evaluated by a panel of judges including Alberto Cairo, Bill Shander, Neil Richards, Katy Börner, Alark Joshi, Vetria Byrd, PhD, Amy Cesal and Elijah Meeks. Entries will be evaluated on how engaging, impactful, clear, impressive, beautiful and accessible they are.

EXPLORATORY DATA VISUALIZATION

The most useful exploratory visualization. We want to see dashboards and other visualizations that let people generate and test their hypotheses about what motivates and affects the field.

EXPLANATORY DATA VISUALIZATION

The most engrossing explanatory visualization. We want to see the trends in the data and how they weave together to tell us what’s happening in the data viz community.

Beauty Prize

Entries will be evaluated to identify the data visualization with the most artistic merit.

Accessibility Prize

Entries will be evaluated to identify the data visualization that is the most accessible

Rules

  • Each person can only enter two submissions and only one submission for each category.
  • Entries are open to Data Visualization Society members. If you are not a member, it’s easy and free to join. Sign up here.
  • Groups can enter but any cash-value prize will be awarded to the individual submitting the entry. Any group entry must be a list of names and cannot be an organization. Gallery space + online ribbons can be shared by all group members named.
  • You must use the 2021 Annual State of the Industry Survey Data. You are also welcome to use annual survey data from previous years or other relevant datasets. If you use any additional datasets, they need to be cited.
  • Any work presented must be your own.
  • By entering you give DVS the non-exclusive right to publish your work and/or screenshots of it. (Examples of use: social media, website, emails and reports)
  • All work must adhere to the DVS Code of Conduct.
  • DVS board members, advisory committee, judges and their immediate family are not eligible to win prizes. However, they may enter and be included in the full gallery. 
  • The Data Visualization Society reserves the right to not award a prize for a category.

Submissions