Dates

Submissions must be received by Friday, November 7 at 5pm Central Time

Eligibility 

Participants may work in teams of up to three members. All team members must be currently enrolled UTA students in any program or major. 

Project and Submission Requirements

Your visualization must contain data from at least two documents in the CTT collection and describe a relationship between them. Your visualization format may include but is not limited to: 

  • Compare and contrast 

  • Trends 

  • Timeline 

Recommended tools and software for this contest include: 

Data Analysis for Visualization and GeoSpatial data representation: 

  • Microsoft Excel/ Google Sheets 

  • Tableau

  • ArcGIS/QGIS 

  • If using any programming scripts should either be on a Jupyter notebook shared though Google Collab, and/or preferably shared on a publicly accessible Github repository. 

Qualitative data analysis 

  • NVivo 

  • Atlas.TI 

Other similar software may be used after approval from the OER & Digital Scholarship team. Send an email to library-open@listserv.uta.edu for questions.

Judging Criteria, Prize, and Winner Selection

A group of reviewers will select up to three winning teams. Winning teams will be notified by email no later than Friday, November 14. Winners will be announced at the CTT launch event on Tuesday, November 18 at 2pm in the Library Parlor. All participants are welcome to attend the event. 

The winning visualizations will be added to the CTT exhibit site and announced on UTA Libraries social media. 

Winning team members may select between two prizes: a 30-minute massage session at the MAC or a UTA Libraries sweatshirt. One prize will be awarded per winning team member.

 

Prohibited Software use:

The project should be your original work without the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and LLMs like Open AI or ChatGPT. Per UTA university policy, the following software is also prohibited: 

  • Alipay 

  • ByteDance Ltd. 

  • CamScanner 

  • DeepSeek 

  • Kaspersky 

  • Lemon8 

  • Moomoo 

  • QQ Wallet 

  • RedNote 

  • SHAREit 

 

  • Tencent Holdings Ltd. 

  • Tiger Brokers 

  • TikTok 

  • VMate 

  • WeBull 

  • WeChat 

  • WeChat Pay 

  • WPS Office 

  • Any subsidiary or affiliates of entities listed above or as restricted by the UTA software use policies.