Data heads, animators, graphics geeks, designers, mappers, students and professional visualization artists converged on The Bocoup Loft in Boston’s Fort Point Channel Tuesday night to find out the answer to one question: who had won the Hubway Data Challenge?
The contest, which kicked off in October after Hubway and MAPC released complete history data on half a million bike share trips for the first time ever, asked for teams and solo craftsmen to create visualizations, animations, maps, or info graphics illustrating something new about more than a year’s worth of data. Contestants were encouraged to submit entries in any format, with the highest marks for those that were both beautiful and smart.
Watch the Contest Video by Stephen Walter.
Overall Best Visualization:
Ta Chiraphadhanakul, PhD Candidate, MIT Operations Research Center in Cambridge
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/45/
Best Aesthetics:
Russell Goldenberg, Hacker-in-chief, Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College in Boston
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/3/
Best Analysis (tie):
Kim Ducharme, Kenn Knowles, Verena Tiefenbeck, Zia Sobhani, Boston/Cambridge
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/43/
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Ari Ofsevit, URS Corp & MassRIDES Outreach Coordinator, Cambridge
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/28/
Best Data Narrative:
Eurry Kim & Kaz Sakamoto, Data Science Student at Columbia University in New York City
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/56/
Best Data Exploration Tool:
Andy Woodruff, Map Maker at Axis Maps & Bostonography, Cambridge
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/41/
People’s Choice (user votes):
Latif Lokman
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/54/
Honorable Mention to a Boston Latin class:
https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/4/
Winners got a one-year Hubway membership and a Hubway T-shirt. The overall winner also received a limited edition Hubway System Map — one of only 61 installed in the original Hubway stations.
The other finalists:
- Hugh Barrigan, Andre Calmon and Vishal Gupta https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/64/
- Samuel Luescher and Sandra Y. Richter https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/71/
- Team Urban Launchpad (Albert Ching and Stephen Kennedy) https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/44/
- Cathy Wu https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/68/
- James Mullen and Michael Winston https://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/59/
Judges were: Gabriel Florit, a data visualization artist for the Boston Globe; Darcey Moore, a registrar at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA); Irene Ros, a javascript developer at Bocoup; Holly St. Clair, Director of Data Services for MAPC; Scott Mullen, the General Manager of Hubway; and Sarah Williams, Director of the Civic Data Design Project at MIT.
Check out all the submissions a hubwaydatachallenge.org.