SecViz has the details on a new visualization contest that attempts to bring graphical order to the typical chaos of network traces, following a reference dataset of internet attacks against a host.
The Challenge:
Design and build a visualization that describes the attacks that were analyzed in FC5. Use the three prize winners’ solutions as references and to give you a head start on the data analysis. Use the FC5 dataset to create your FC10 visualization.
As an example, the visualization may have a geographic element, represented as a map, link graphs, histogram, or parallel coordinates, that sheds light on the following:
Where the attacks came from
The volumes of attacks originating from various locations
The success or failure of these attacks
The nature of the attacks. For example which are “primary” and which are the “secondary” phases.
Can the attacks be color coded to describe groups of attacks/attackers?
Use external data sources such as the many freely available geomapping databases.
The output can be anything that you like – from a still image, to interactive flash/java, dynamically updating, dashboard style, magazine infographic, holograms are also accepted.
3Dconnexion, manufacturers of the impressive SpacePilot 3D mouse and other interesting multi-DOF input devices, is running a contest right now for a big free trip to the upcoming Autodesk University in Las Vegas next month.
Register now to enter to win:
One full-conference pass to Autodesk University 2011 in Las Vegas, NV
Nov 29 through Dec 1, 2011
Airfare and hotel accommodations for 3 nights
A SpacePilot PRO – The Ultimate Professional 3D Mouse
The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge is coming up, and to open the submission process they’ve released a great video highlighting the winners since 2006.
Creating visualizations of scientific data is a particularly challenging task. It requires artistry, advanced computing skills, the ability to grasp the scientific concepts, and the creativity to conceive of new ways to display data. The successful visualization must be pleasing to both the eye and intellect, providing researchers with practical, even insightful perspective on their data.
The visualization competition conceived of through a collaboration between David McCandless and PostGrad.com has come to a close, with the winner announced: Raphael Halloran with a fantastic interactive HTML5 entry. You can view his entry, the runners up, and several of the other offerings at the PostGrad.com site.
6 weeks ago, we launched a data visualisation competition with David McCandless. The brief was based on some data that David had collected about the ethnicity of student attending elite universities in the UK.
After much deliberation by our expert panel of judges, the votes are now in.
That’s right folks, it’s contest time again, and this one it’s a big one! One lucky winner will receive a brand new NVidia Quadro FX 4800 direct from VizWorld? How do you enter, you ask? Well, if you’ve been watching the VizWorld Podcast then you already know and doubled your chances. For all the rest of you, just go join the VizWorld Mailing List and one lucky winner will be selected this Friday night at Midnight (Central Time).
Unfortunately, this contest is open to US Residents only (sorry folks, but go ahead and join the Mailing List to qualify for any upcoming contests!). Go join up now, and get your friends to join too! If your friends list you in the “How I heard about the Mailing List” box, then you get an extra entry! (Maximum 5 entries per entrant).
So go join the Mailing list today for your chance to win!
Update: Clarified to specify it’s a Quadro FX 4800..
GE’s Visualizing.org contest to visualize the 2010 US Census data has come to a close, and the lucky winner is Jan Willem Tulp with some truly beautiful visualizations like the one above.
Check out the images below, of winner Jan Willem Tulp’s visualization, “Ghost Counties,” which focuses on homeowner data from the Census to create an arresting perspective on the subprime mortgage crisis. Like the best data visualizations, they have an artistic beauty separate from any informational utility. To learn how the striking forms below illustrate housing data by county and by state, click here.
Hit their website for some more impressive graphics.
iRise is trying to drum up some interest in their iRise Enterprise Visualization Platform through a $20,000 Developer Contest based on their “iBlocs” feature. Develop a nice interactive visualization using iBlocs in just XML & JavaScript, and you could get a piece at the conclusion August 31st.
“Our goal is to show that these components can be created in a matter of hours or days by a skilled Javascript developer, and, by expanding the library of available components, enable our customers and partners to build highly interactive visualizations in a fraction of the time it previously took,” said Maurice Martin, iRise president and COO.
WikiSym 2011 is 4 months away, but they’re already gearing up for a possible visualization contest featuring open collaboration data. Rules and datasets haven’t been defined yet, but they’ve already got an impressive list of sponsors including WikiMedia, Microsoft, and the NSF.
WikiViz is a competition organized by WikiSym, and co-organized in this first edition byWikimedia Foundation as WikiSym 2011 Premium sponsor. We will call on data/information visualization experts, computational journalists, data artists and data scientists to create the most insightful visualization of open collaboration data. The topic of this year’s challenge, timeline and rules to participate will be published soon.
Get all the details, once they’re published, at their site.
Oh, the fun of Social Media. Last month David McCandless issued a single tweet of some data on blacks students in UK universities that he never got around to doing any visualization on. Now, we have a full-fledged contest regarding it and Postgrad.com.
The competition is based on the data collected by David, and other sources listed within the dataset. However, you are free to mashup the data with any other source you wish, provided the sources are publicly available and cited in your entry to the competition.
Your visualisation can be static, moving or interactive
You can include as little or as much text as you like
It can be as simple as a single chart or a full-blown infographic
If you win, you could get anything from a signed copy of McCandless’s “Information is Beautiful” to a brand new iPad2. Hit their site for all the details.
Tableau, in cooperation with the Economist Ideas Economy conference, is cranking up a big contest for their free Tableau Public tool that could result in a nice 3-night stay in Vegas for the event, $2000 in cash, and a new iPad2.
The winner chosen by our judges will also take away a free roundtrip ticket to attend the 2011 Tableau Customer Conference. This includes 3 night’s accommodations at the Encore and a chance to compete in the Iron Viz championship with the winners of two other contests. The winner of Iron Viz will take away a new iPad2, and $2,000.
Interestingly, there are no restrictions on input data. So go find your favorite dataset, make a smooth viz, and if nothing else all entries get a free Tableau T-Shirt!
3Dconnexion, manufacturers of the impressive SpacePilot 3D mouse and other interesting multi-DOF input devices, is running a contest right now for a big free trip to the upcoming Autodesk University in Las Vegas next month.
The 
That’s right folks, it’s contest time again, and this one it’s a big one! One lucky winner will receive a brand new NVidia Quadro FX 4800 direct from VizWorld? How do you enter, you ask? Well, if you’ve been watching the 
GE’s Visualizing.org contest to visualize the 2010 US Census data has come to a close, and the lucky winner is Jan Willem Tulp with some truly beautiful visualizations like the one above.
iRise is trying to drum up some interest in their iRise Enterprise Visualization Platform through a $20,000 Developer Contest based on their “iBlocs” feature. Develop a nice interactive visualization using iBlocs in just XML & JavaScript, and you could get a piece at the conclusion August 31st.
WikiSym 2011 is 4 months away, but they’re already gearing up for a possible visualization contest featuring open collaboration data. Rules and datasets haven’t been defined yet, but they’ve already got an impressive list of sponsors including WikiMedia, Microsoft, and the NSF.
Oh, the fun of Social Media. Last month David McCandless issued a single tweet of some data on blacks students in UK universities that he never got around to doing any visualization on. Now, we have a full-fledged contest regarding it and Postgrad.com.
Tableau, in cooperation with the Economist Ideas Economy conference, is cranking up a big contest for their free Tableau Public tool that could result in a nice 3-night stay in Vegas for the event, $2000 in cash, and a new iPad2.
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