The Politics Viz Contest is a chance to prove your visualization chops and win big.
What are the terms of participating?
Any resident of the Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom Or The United States not employed by Tableau Software can participate as long as they follow our guidelines and rules.
Please limit your entries to 2.
What if I submit an entry early, and then later re-work my viz and want to replace my first entry?
That’s fantastic – feel free to do that up until the close of the contest. Tableau Public automatically supports updates to your viz. You do not need to resubmit your entry form, simply update your workbook and save your changes. Your embedded viz will automatically update on the webpage you have posted it to. We won't look at the entries until the end of the submission period, so update them as much as you want.
Can I really use any data?
For the Policy Viz contest, you can use any data set that is related to politics or politicians and that you can legally share online.
Who can I contact if I am having problems with Tableau Public?
You may contact Tableau at public-contests@tableau.com, please include Viz Contest in the subject line.
How will winner be chosen?
A panel of judges comprised of Tableau employees will evaluate all submissions based on the following criteria:
- 25% - Design
- 25% - Storytelling (note does not have to use the StoryPoints Tableau feature)
- 25% - Analysis
- 25% - Overall
How will the Crowd Favorite prize work?
When the submission period ends, each contestant will be assigned a hashtag. A contest page will list all of the entries and their hashtags. To vote for a viz, just write a tweet with the appropriate hashtag. We will count the number of Tweets from unique users for each hashtag during voting period. Whoever gets the most tweets will win the crowd favorite prize.
What is the schedule?
10 June 2016 - Submission Period Opens
26 June 2016 - Submission Period Ends
27 June 2016 - Twitter Voting begins
4 July 2016 - Twitter Voting ends
5 July 2016 - Winners announced