UPDATE: Oops, hold your programming skills: according to the : "this Challenge is open to users who are physically located in the United States". This seems outdated on so many levels...
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There isn't a real shortage of data visualization competitions lately, as high-profile , , , and popular blogs and seem to continuously encourage the home-based information designer to come out and demonstrate their talent in terms of making complex data comprehensible and enjoyable to explore.

The latest contestant in this search for the best visualization designer (or should I say, the next employee?) is Google, who, together with , just their profound interest in both as well as .

This naturally all culminates in an ambitious [datavizchallenge.org], which will be by viz gurus like and .

Each competition entry must use the data from , be graphical, and have some legible relationship to the underlying data. That somehow legible relationship though, as they describe , must be excellent in terms of storytelling, clarity, relevance, utility, and... aesthetics.

So, what are you waiting for?