Data Viz Championship FAQs

Data Viz Championship FAQs

Why should I participate?
  • For bragging rights!
  • It makes a great line on a resume!
Can I collaborate on my presentation?
  • Students can submit work that results from collaboration with another person, but both must be credited.
  • Faculty and staff should credit all involved as authors of the work. 
  • When collaborating, at least one person should be identified to present the work during the showcase. 
Are there awards?

There are two awards for each category:

  1. Love It! Award (based on audience votes)
  2. Chart Topper: Judges’ Award for Excellence (based on a scoring rubric)
Are there minimum guidelines that must be incorporated into the work?

Minimum guidelines include the types of visuals, data sources, or the number of visuals to use or not exceed.

Any tool (or a combination of tools) may be used. This is not limited to Tableau or PowerBI.

Student Requirements:

  • Students must use the FiveThirtyEight Fight Songs dataset at minimum. Students may supplement with additional publicly available data if they choose to do so. 
  • Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login during the Championship voting.  

Faculty/Staff Requirements: 

  • The viz should be used for something related to the Big Ten (e.g., athletics, enrollment data, etc. ), public research the creator is involved in, or information about the institution—be it the institution as a whole or a specific initiative/population . 
  • All submissions must follow the schools’ institutional data policies and guidelines (i.e., please do not submit a viz with Social Security Numbers or HIPAA information).  
  • Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login during the Championship voting.

 

How is judging happening at the university level?

Each institution will set its own guidelines for determining a viz to showcase in the Championship. 

How will submissions be evaluated for the Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Viz Champion competition? Each submission will be reviewed by a panel of judges using a standardized judging rubric.   
I am part of a Medical Center at a university. Am I allowed to participate? Yes! We’d love you to submit work, attend the Championship, and vote.  
Will the data behind my work be available to download?

 

Please work with your university to ensure that data downloads are disabled.

Are there resources available to learn Power BI or Tableau?

Below is a list of resources recommended by our member institutions.  

Power BI 

Tableau