Viz Challenges
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
— B.B. King
What’s a Challenge?
About
Challenges start with a single theme, topic, or data set with a challenge to produce a visualization within a limited time. The time could be a week or a month. If you accept the challenge, what you learn is up to you. It may be a new chart type, calculation, way of looking at the data, or learning something from exploring a new data set. Upon completing the viz, you can share your work with the community to get feedback or say, “I completed this.” However, you choose to share or which challenges to accept the process will change you. (List of Community Challenges)
Design Decisions
I approach challenges as short, focused projects, typically one sheet with one viz. Though the data set is rich in ways to tell its story, my approach focuses on a key overarching theme. Creating an elevator viz for the data, highlighting the critical item I want the viewer to take away from the data set. I also use the challenges to try a new approach or view
Challenge Types
Self Assigned
From time to time, I will see a visualization in the wild I want to recreate to learn how it was created or change the style. I may also want to explore a data set to develop a quick viz with a given time limit.
Community Challenge
There is a community challenge to match each person and can be found here. Each challenge has its own hashtags and communities. The ability to see different visualizations versions of the same data set you worked on gives you the ability to learn from the community and grow as an analyst.
Challenges
