Honorable mention for Visualizing.org Olympics contest entry

Just a quick bit of housekeeping and a record of thanks to the folks at Visualizing.org for a honorable mention for my entry in the recent Olympics visualisation contest, The Pursuit of Faster which was praised…

“for its level of data analysis that was unmatched by most, if not all, of the challenge entries. Its focused and thorough narrative further distinguished the project from the other interactive entries”.

Congratulations to Christian Gross, INFOGRAFIKA and Ivo Afonso who won in the Interactive, Static and People’s Choice sections respectively (click on the links to check out their submissions).

Related posts:

  1. The wonderful NYT series of Olympics graphics
  2. ‘Visualisations in the wild’ contest: The winner!
  3. Visualizing.org Competition Runner-up!
August 14th, 2012 in site news

3 Comments

Aleksey Nozdryn-PlotnickiAugust 14th, 2012 at 8:34 pm

Yours was the only one from the whole set that I pulled out to show a colleague. The level of data analysis means it can answer many questions. Did hit a speedbump when the only browser on her machine was IE8. Additionally it’s probably worth noting that you’ve created a simple, abstract tool to generate all of those otherwise heavily decorated margin-of-victory-vs-historic-medalists visualisations that were so popular this year. Except that here I can see both genders together.

Andy KirkAugust 14th, 2012 at 8:40 pm

Many thanks Aleksey, much appreciated! Yeah, the IE8 (and others) issue was a problem that the time didn’t enable us to amount. Its by no means a perfect piece of work and there’s loads more we wanted to do to refine it but as a test collaboration it was definitely a satisfying outcome. Take care and catch up soon

TSSVelosoAugust 15th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

Congratulations, Andy!! Well deserved!

Cheers!