ChinaVis2023
"Digital China" Data Visualization Competition Call for Papers

Data Visualization Competition Introduction

The Data Visualization Competition is an important part of the China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference. The competition invites researchers, developers, students, and enthusiasts to use their most effective visualization and visual analytics techniques/tools to accomplish data analysis as well as visualization tasks. The competition aims to evaluate the effectiveness, novelty, and artistry of their techniques and tools in solving complex problems, and promote the development and advancement of research and applications related to visualization and visual analytics in China.

Data Visualization Competition Content

The Data Visualization Competition offers three tracks, of which the participants can choose the corresponding topic to compete. Each track has its own judges.

Track 1:「Digital Analysis Space-time」Multi-dimensional Data Visual Analysis Challenge at Urban Intersections

Data related to urban traffic intersections are expected to be used. Data and competition questions are still in the process of docking. It is expected to be released 1-2 weeks later.


Track 2:「Through Digital Throughout Millennia」Humanities Visualization Creative Competition

Digital transformation is an important challenge and opportunity facing Chinese society at present. Cultural digitization is a very important part of it, which undertakes the important responsibility of inheriting, developing and constructing Chinese civilization and excellent culture in the digital age. The digitalization of culture not only refers to the transformation of cultural resources from physical to digital, but more importantly, the combination of culture and digital technology, and the use of digital technology to realize the digital, analytical, visual and asset of cultural resources, so that culture can truly become an important resource and driving force for the development of Chinese society in the digital era.

This competition requires contestants to create works around the theme of "Counting Thousands of years -- China in History". They can use the "Jinling Context data set" provided by the competition or choose their own data set. Contestants are encouraged to make full use of cutting-edge digital technology and design tools by using interdisciplinary teams, combining digital humanities research thinking, and exploring the relationship between historical time and space and cultural context, between urban development and local culture, between heritage inheritance and innovation, and between collective creation and individual emotion from historical, artistic and intellectual perspectives. It presents the richness and complexity of "Digital China" in terms of culture and art in multiple dimensions, and deeply explores the connotation and value of excellent traditional Chinese culture.

The competition will be judged by a comprehensive jury composed of experts in the field of culture, technology and design art.

Optional Data set: " Jinling Cultural Pulse Data Set " (download link pending confirmation)

Note: Self-selected data should not involve secrets or intellectual property rights.


Track 3:「Multidimensional Visualization of Data」Art Visualization Competition

In this rapidly changing era, art and technology complement and nourish each other. In this era, data is no longer a cold number, but like a seed bursting out of the power of life, through the magic of visual magic to show the connotation of data in front of us, the dull digital into a smart art. 2023 China Visualization and Visual Analysis Conference will be held in the mountain city of Chongqing. Chongqing is a central city in southwest China. It is famous for its beauty of mountains and rivers, its history and culture, and the gathering of diverse industries. Its natural landscape and historical and cultural resources are rich, such as Dazu Stone carvings, Wuling Mountains, Tongnan Ancient town, etc. Chongqing's economy is dominated by heavy industry and emerging industries, such as automobile manufacturing, iron and steel smelting, service industry, cultural and creative industries, etc. Chongqing is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities such as Tujia, Miao, Dong and Zhuang, showing rich cultural diversity. Traveling for thousands of miles, reaching the vast, seeing the history and touching the future, Chongqing, with its growth form of three-dimensional interweaving and multi-dimensional reconstruction, has shaped a unique human texture and life picture.

The Art Project organizing committee of China Visualization and Visual Analysis Conference in 2023 issued a call to artists, designers, researchers, teachers and students of universities and other professionals from all walks of life to encourage the creation and submission of artistic design works related to communication and connection, showing the multi-dimensional exploration and wonderful in the field of visualization. The track requires the author to select relevant data sets for artistic visualization within the annual theme of "Visual in number dimensions". It does not limit the expression techniques, and aims to encourage students to give full play to their imagination and free creativity, encourage them to create and submit art and design works related to digital visual, and show multi-dimensional exploration and wonderful in the field of visualization.

This track works will be judged by a team of Chinese art visualization experts. The evaluation principle is whether the team can effectively express the artistic ideas, opinions or concepts based on the selected data through visual, auditory and other artistic forms.

Instructions for participation


Registration

Teachers, students, and researchers from general higher education institutions (including higher education) and research institutes, developers and designers from enterprises and institutions, visualization and visual analytics enthusiasts as well as artists are welcome to participate in the competition. Participants are invented to sign up as teams.

  • Track 1 - 2: Each team consists of up to 5 participants, and has 1-2 instructors.

    Track 3: Each team consists of up to 3 participants, and has 1-2 instructors.

  • Team Naming Rule: "Legal entity name - Captain's name" or "enthusiast team - Captain's name". For example: "Tianjin University - Zhang San", "enthusiast team - Li Si". The first ranked participant of each team is the team leader and is responsible for communication. Non-research institutes, enterprises, and institutions, etc. Please fill in the name of "enthusiast team" (enthusiast team means that the participant is a team formed as an individual).


Registration requirements
  • The competition is open for online registration, the registration portal:
    https://s99x45wjic.jiandaoyun.com/f/64355d2e78f29b000828a3d1
  • Registration information includes communication Email, team name, participants (instructor, team leader, and team members), cell phone number, Email, Legal entity (schools, colleges, etc.) and work title (educational background, grade, etc.).
  • The signatures of the award certificates are printed in the order of registration, with students first and instructors last.
  • One email can only register one team, and the team number is unique and bound to the communication Email.
  • If you forget the number, you can check it on the submission page according to the Email you fill in. Please remember the communication Email of the competition.

Work submission requirements

The submission of the competition works is online, please click on the submission portal to submit your works, and try to avoid submitting works during the peak period of the deadline.

Submission portal:

Track 1: https://s99x45wjic.jiandaoyun.com/f/64355d2e78f29b000828a3d2

Track 2 and 3: https://s99x45wjic.jiandaoyun.com/f/64355d2e78f29b000828a3c6

  • Submission information includes team number, entry track, entry theme, entry title, entry summary(100 words), and entry submission content.
  • If you want to update your work, please use the same entry number to submit your work again, and the last submitted work with the same team name with the same entry number will prevail. The title of the work is based on the last submission and the work description document.
  • Participants are recommended to visit “overview of previous years’ ChinaVis Data Challenges” for more instructions. Award-winning entries of VAST Challenge organized by IEEE VIS Conference can be found in this repository: http://cs.umd.edu/hcil/varepository/benchmarks.php, which would also provide some hints and guidance. Paper “ChinaVis Data Challenge from 2015 to 2017” can be also referred for information.


Requirements for submission items
  • Track 1:

    (1) Work description document: Track 1 requires participants to introduce the work with illustrations and text according to the recommended template provided by the organizer and submit it in Word or PDF format.

    (2) Video: Track 1 requires participants to produce a video with commentary, explaining the visual analysis process around the work, the total length of the video should not exceed 5 minutes, the number of videos should be 1, the file format should be MP4, and the size of the video should be strictly controlled within 50M.

    (3) Representative pictures of the work: Please provide one high-definition version, limited to JPG format, and stitch together multiple pictures, the size of which should not exceed 20M.

  • Track 2 and Track 3:
    • (1) Interpretation of Works (for review):
      • 1 pdf file only, < 10MB.
      • Necessary creative interpretation or interpretation of the entries, including explanation of the original data, screenshots and interpretation of the works.
    • (2) Works file (for review):
      • Work video or commentary video, be sure to provide an online video link.
      • 1 representative works, image format works limited *.jpg / *.png type, a single image < 20MB.
    • (3) Works HD file download link (for exhibition):
      • Including all works HD files, works interpretation.
      • Baidu Netdisk is recommended to ensure that the link is valid during the review period.
      • Video format works limited to type *.mp4 / *.mov / *.avi, < 50MB.
      • Image format works limited to *.jpg / *.png type, single image < 20MB.
      • Only electronic submission is required, no mailing required.

Judging rules

All entries will be submitted to both visual analysis experts, domain experts, and visualization-related artists for comprehensive evaluation. The evaluation will focus on evaluating the thematic orientation and application value of the entries, as well as the effectiveness, novelty and artistry of the entries in terms of interaction design, degree of data utilization, social benefits, analytical ideas and methods, etc.

Entries submitted by all eligible teams by the event deadline will be judged. The competition organizers will not evaluate any entries submitted after the deadline, and the organizers will not be held responsible for any damage, missing entries, or delayed submissions due to computer, Internet, or mobile network failures.

Award Setting

The chairman of the competition committee will select a number of exciting entries in proportion to the results of expert evaluation. At the ChinaVis 2023 conference, award certificates will be presented to all winning teams, and some of the winning teams will be invited to make on-site presentations at the competition session of the conference.

Important time points(China Standard Time 23:59, (UTC+8))

  • Deadline for online registration: May 20, 2023.
  • Deadline for submission of entries:
    • Track 1(Visual Analytics):June 12, 2023.
    • Track 2(Digital Humanities):June 07, 2023.
    • Track 3(Art Visualization):May 27, 2023.
  • Announcement date for judging results: July 03, 2023.

Documentation Templates and Dataset Download

(1) Track 1:

  • Detailed introduction for the Challenge
  • Work description document template
  • Data download link

(2) Track 2:

  • Work description document recommended template
  • The following public basic geographic information datasets are recommended (not limited):

(3) Track 3:

  • Self-selected dataset

Others

(1) Entries must not violate relevant national laws and regulations, and must not infringe on any third party intellectual property rights or other rights. If the work gives rise to intellectual property objections and disputes, the responsibility shall be borne by the participant.

(2) Participants may use open source or commercial data analysis and visualization software, such as DataV, TableaU, R and Excel, etc. Participants are encouraged to use software development tools to design and implement their own visual analysis solutions or artistic visualization works. Common visualization development tools include D3, ECharts, AntV , and Processing, etc. Participants are requested to clearly state the development tools used and the open-source or commercial software used in the documentation of the work.

(3) The winning team must have at least one person registered with ChinaVis 2023.

(4) Winning teams are required to make their entries into posters and participate in the poster session of ChinaVis 2023, with specific requirements referring to the poster session.

(5) The intellectual property rights of the entries belong to the participants. The organizers of the conference have the right to use the entries, work-related materials, and team information for promotional materials, authorized media releases, official website browsing and downloading, exhibitions (including roving exhibitions), and other activities.

(6) Names and order of participants cannot be changed after the entries have been submitted.

Organizing Committee of the Visualization Competition


Huijie Zhang Northeast Normal University

Siming Chen Fudan University

Tiemeng Li Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Jing Chen Nanjing University

Previous Challenges Review