Science Videos Wow Judges in Data-Visualization Face-Off

"Seasonal Changes in Carbon Dioxide" was the winning entry in the "Professional"

category for a data visualization contest hosted by the journal Science. Credit: Gregory Shirah/Scientific Visualization Studio (NASA/GSFC) "Wow us with your best data!" That was the challenge issued by the journal Science for its second annual data-visualization competition, called Data Stories. And today (May 4), Science announced the four winning entries. A judging panel chose standouts in three categories: student, professional and corporate entity. An online poll conducted from April 17-23 picked one People's Choice winner. The contest, open for entries from Feb. 13 to April 14, accepted short videos no longer than 90 seconds in length, looking for submissions that used imaginative animation and storytelling methods to visually communicate stories crafted from scientific data. Entries were judged on "creativity, complexity and clarity," a contest representative told Live Science in an email. [See Video of the Data Visualization Winners]                                https://www.livescience.com/58964-data-stories-competition-science.html