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An opportunity to showcase data visualisations from your research.

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Competition Details

The Jean Golding Institute would like to invite staff and students at the University to submit their data visualisations for this exciting competition to find the best University of Bristol data visualisation.  You can see the entries from past competitions on our Flickr page. 

This year the prize for the winner includes the opportunity to present at the JGI Data Visualisation Interest Group and accept their prize at the Bristol Data and AI Showcase taking place at the M Shed in June. The overall winner will receive a £100 gift voucher and the two runners up will each receive £50 gift vouchers

Competition Rules

• The competition opens on 25 April 2022 
• The competition is open to all staff and students at the University of Bristol 
• Entries will need to be submitted by 23 May 2022 
• All entries should be original and not infringe any copywriting laws 
• Files can be sent in the form of PDF, PPT, JPEG, MP4. Email your entries to jgi-admin@bristol.ac.uk. 
• Please append a short summary (one paragraph) of the project, study, paper, or dataset that the visualisation represents and the name and affiliation of the person/team submitting the entry 
• The Jean Golding Institute would like to disseminate any entries in print and on the web with authors names and affiliation so entry into this competition confirms you are happy for us to use your entry to publicise the research work at University of Bristol. 

Evaluation and Prizes

• The entries will be evaluated by a panel convened by the JGI 
• The overall winner will receive a £100 gift voucher and the two runners up will each receive £50 gift vouchers 
• The winner and runners up will have the opportunity to present at the JGI Data Visualisation Interest Group and accept their prize at the Bristol Data and AI Showcase taking place at the M Shed in June. 

Entry

Please submit your entry to jgi-admin@bristol.ac.uk  

Timeline

Competition launch: 25 April 2022 

Deadline for entries: 23 May 2022 

Join us at the Bristol Data & AI Showcase on Tuesday 7 June 2022, for a chance to play with and find out more about visualising past and future climate change with a new 3D visualisation tool. Look back to your birth year, your parents’ birth years, or even as far back as the dinosaurs!

Hear from the creators, Sebastian Steinig, School of Geographical Sciences  (sebastian.steinig@bristol.ac.uk) and Tessa Alexander, Developer at the Research IT, in a short video about the project.

Sebastian notes that he hopes users will be able to “feel past and future climate change” to understand “how dynamic our Earth system was in the past”, but also to “see how alarming our current warming is in this context”.

Tessa notes that attendees of the Showcase may be interested in “moving the timeline back to when they were born” and “seeing how much the climate has changed within their own lifetime”.

Read more about the Climate Archive project blogpost and find out about previous JGI Seed Corn Funded Projects.

We plan to use the collaboration fund to support networks and public engagement events that will contribute to the aims of the Turing Institute and the University of Bristol, to utilise data science to change the world for the better.

Find out more about the funded projects:

Establishing a national vision for “Data-centric biological design”

This project will be led by Thomas Gorochowski (Bristol) and Diego Oyarzun (Edinburgh). The aim is to develop a white paper that will describe the vision for data-centric approaches that will transform Engineering Biology, which is one of the strategic priorities for UKRI. They plan to organise a workshop at Turing HQ, inviting leading figures in the field to work on the white paper. They will also create an application to become a Turing Special Interest Group to build longer term momentum.

Data competition with Ordnance Survey 

The JGI has developed this vehicle to develop links with external partners, providing, at the same time, an opportunity for early career researchers to be exposed to a variety of datasets and challenges. The JGI are in discussion with the Ordnance Survey, who are interested in being involved in the next data competition. They will provide an open dataset and a challenge, and the JGI will curate the dataset to make it fully accessible to those entering the data competition.

Bristol Science Film Festival (BSFF) competition and Data Week Live Event 

As part of Bristol Data Week 2022, and continuing our collaboration with BSFF, we will be hosting the JGI Data Science and AI Film Prize. The winners will be announced during Data Week (13-17 June), alongside a screening of their films. This year we plan to hold the event in person at The Watershed, inviting the JGI community to attend, including members of the general public, with an added social element. It’s important to us to continue supporting and celebrating this local festival and this arts and science collaboration.