[Infovis] Call for Submissions | IEEE PacificVis 2025 Storytelling Contest

[Chris Bryan]

Dear colleagues,

The call for submissions for the 2025 PacificVis Storytelling Contest is
now live.

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The Visual Data Storytelling contest celebrates its 9th year in 2025. This
contest aims to encourage students, researchers, and visualization
practitioners to demonstrate the value of data visualization through
compelling visual data stories.

This contest celebrates the emerging data communication genre, including
data storytelling, narrative visualizations, explanatory notebooks, and
visual essays. The contest will be held in conjunction with IEEE PacificVis
2025 from April 22-25, 2025 at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei,
Taiwan.

Storytellers are invited to submit visual data-driven stories that draw
upon any of these areas. In addition, entries that focus on computational
journalism and artistic design projects are encouraged. Unlike contests
such as the IEEE VAST challenge or the IEEE SciVis Contest, the data for
the PacificVis visual data storytelling contest is intentionally left
unspecified; storytellers are free to choose any publicly available
dataset(s). Similarly, the task that storytellers are to accomplish is to
successfully communicate a message or series of messages (i.e., a
narrative, a series of insights) using data visualization techniques. The
story's themes can draw from any topic, including current affairs, history,
natural disasters, and research findings from the sciences and humanities.

Storytelling submissions may take several forms, including:

- images

- videos

- data notebooks

- websites

- mixed reality

- audio-visual projects

- other unconventional forms of media

Please see the contest website (https://visstory.github.io/) for full
details and requirements. Submissions may be made on PCS (submit to the
PacificVis 2025 conference, PacificVis 2025 Visual Data Storytelling
Contest track).

Important deadlines (all dates are midnight AOE).

- Initial submissions: February 9, 2025

- Notification date: February 23, 2025

- Camera read submissions: March 16, 2025

Juanjuan Long and Chris Bryan

Storytelling Contest Co-Chairs