What is the Swiss Viz Awards?
Visualization plays a pivotal role in the data journey. It imparts knowledge and understanding, influencing our perceptions, guiding our actions and sparks inspiration.
Strengthening the discipline of data visualization is essential on two fronts: fostering its diverse community, spanning from industry professionals and recognized experts to students, and increasing visibility and raising public awareness across a spectrum of contemporary professional fields.
As part of the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), the Swiss Viz Awards bring together enthusiasts of data visualization who share a passion for data and its visual representation. These awards not only honor exceptional work and authors in the field annually but also contribute to promoting the discipline to a broader audience.
Join the movement – we are eager to showcase your remarkable data visualization work!
Accepted formats
Works, published in 2023 and created in Switzerland, from the following three categories may be submitted:
- Visualizations
This type of work is exploratory, it provides the user with a chart (or several) that enables her to extract her own insights from the data. - Data stories
This type of work is explanatory and guides the viewer on a journey via storytelling, it usually displays multiple story aspects and contains several charts (elements). - Dashboards
This category is designed for dashboards that one uses regularly to monitor or supervise operations such as business dashboards, training (fitness) dashboards, etc. The works will exclusively be accessible to jury members. When a work is selected, collaboration with the author will be undertaken to anonymize the data and the organization, facilitating its eventual publication.
Students Special
We highly encourage students to participate. For students, it is also possible to submit works created in 2023/24. Please submit your work and signal it by checking the relevant checkbox on the registration form.
How does it work?
We look for excellent works that inspire, impart knowledge, and change behavior.
The form of the visualization can be printed/static, animated (short films), interactive, on- or offline. The participants are responsible for making their work accessible to the jury members by providing the relevant accesses or by sending the work itself in its usable form (as the viewer consumes it). The works will exclusively be accessible to jury members. When a work is selected, collaboration with the author will be undertaken to anonymize the data and the organization, facilitating its eventual publication. The competition is open to both individual and team entries.
To participate in the Swiss Viz Awards 2024, please fill out this form. The submitted works will be evaluated by our jury members based on the following principles:
The winners will be announced during the SDS Networking Apero Riche on May 30th, 2024, at The Circle in Zurich. The winner of each category (assuming a sufficient number of submissions per category) will receive an award and will be featured in multiple data innovation alliance and SDS communication channels such as on the Website, LinkedIn, and post-event mailings.
Some impressions from last year
We were presented with numerous outstanding works in last year’s edition, and from this impressive selection, we chose a winner. Additionally, five projects received honorable mentions.
