Northwestern Data Viz Championship
Calling all Northwestern students, faculty, and staff! Showcase your data visualization skills for the chance to win prizes and compete for the prestigious Big Ten Data Viz Championship Title.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the participants who finish 1st ($250), 2nd ($150), or 3rd ($75) in either the student or faculty/staff category based on judging by the Northwestern Love Data Committee.
How to Participate
Students Requirements:- Students must use the college fight song dataset available here. Students may supplement with additional publicly available data if they choose to do so.
- Students must be actively enrolled at the institution for undergraduate or graduate coursework, thesis, or dissertation study.
- Students may collaborate in teams of up to two people for submissions.
- Visualizations must be accessible via a link that requires no login during the Championship voting.
- Submit a visualization using:
- Public research that you are involved in at Northwestern,
- Something related to the Big Ten (e.g., athletics, enrollment data, etc.), or
- Information about Northwestern- either 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.
Other resources can be found here.
Submitting to the Northwestern Competition
This year's contest has ended. Check back in Fall 2026 for information about next year's contest.