[wdmmg-discuss] Google announce: 'The Data Viz Challenge: can you make tax data exciting?'

Tue Feb 22 19:27:34 UTC 2011

Hi everyone,
Thought you might be interested in this competition set by Google:
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*The Data Viz Challenge: can you make tax data exciting?*
*The Challenge: Visualize how your individual federal income taxes are
spent.*
*We give you the numbers; you make them speak to us. Our jury will be
awarding $10,000, including $5,000 for the top submission. Click “get
started” to learn more about the challenge, view an example, and get the
data. *
*This challenge was created by Eyebeam and Google, with data provided by
WhatWePayFor.com.*

Announcement -
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/data-viz-challenge-can-you-make-tax.html

Challenge site - http://datavizchallenge.org/

They announced the competition today.

What say you all?

Kathryn
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