Presenting Arts Data Artfully
The NEA wants YOU! That is, if you are a graphic/interactive data visualization creator.. Here’s a summary of the challenge, with a total of $60,000 in prizes:
How can information about the arts events that people experience yearly—and the types of art they otherwise consume or create—be used to tell people who they are as Americans and how they relate to one another? How can the information be linked to other datasets to profile behavior patterns within a geographic area, and how can arts and cultural managers use such data to improve their services and outreach capabilities?
The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) is the NEA’s flagship dataset and includes a host of demographic, geographic, and behavioral variables about U.S. adults (ages 18 and over) and how they participate in arts activities. Last fielded in 2012, the nationally representative survey has occurred six times since 1982.
Now that the 2012 SPPA data have become available through the U.S. Census Bureau, the NEA wants innovative thinkers, data crunchers, and graphic artists to paint pictures that can reveal hidden or unexpected value from the raw numbers.
They have posted the full details on the challenge, which is open through February 2, 2014, on ChallengePost.com which has the full details, including Eligability, Requirments, Rules, Judges, Judging criteria and (of course) the prizes.
If you’d like to see the data set you are required to work with beforehand, here is the 2012 SPPA Data: www.arts.gov/publications/additional-materials-related-to-2012-sppa
If you do make a submission, please let us know at @vizworld, we’d like to see how this challenge goes!
