We are proud to announce the second data challenge co-organized this summer by the
Wikimedia Foundation.
WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation are jointly launching WikiViz 2011 – a call for
data/information visualization experts, computational journalists, data artists and data
scientists to create the most insightful visualization of Wikipedia’s impact. The goal of
the competition is to use open datasets to help improve our understanding of how Wikipedia
is affecting the world beyond the scope of its own community.
The award:
The WikiViz 2011 Awarding Ceremony will take place on October 4, at the WikiSym 2011
venue, the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley campus (Mountain View, California). The
ceremony will be introduced by a keynote by Jeff Heer (Stanford University), on the impact
of emerging visualization techniques to understand open collaboration today. Three
finalist teams (1 winner, 2 runners-up) will be invited to present their work at WikiSym
2011. Travel expenses and registration fees will be covered for a delegate per team. The
works from these three teams will be showcased at the WikiSym 2011 exhibit, presented
during the WikiViz awards ceremony and featured by our Knowledge and Media Partners: El
Mundo.es, the largest digital newspaper in Spanish by readership worldwide, as well as
four among the leading outlets and organizations in data visualization: FlowingData,
Information Aesthetics,
Visualizing.org and Periscopic). Unidad Editorial will also run a
dedicated “Public's choice” track among the top 10 submissions received. The winner
will be featured on the digital edition of El Mundo.
The jury:
The finalists will be selected by a jury composed by world-class experts in data
visualization and social computing
• Moritz Stefaner, Well Formed Data
• Kim Rees, Periscopic)
• Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven and Information Aesthetics
• Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Foundation
• Gregorio Convertino, Xerox PARC and WikiSym
The official announcement:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/05/wikiviz-2011-visualizing-the-impact-o…
The call for participation:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:cfp
Contacts, news and updates:
For any questions, comments or interest in supporting or collaborating with this
challenge, please contact the co-organizers at: wikiviz2011 [at] easychair [dot] org
• Felipe Ortega, WikiSym
• Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation
You can also follow us on Twitter: @WikiViz (tag your tweets with #wikiviz11)