Viz for Social Good

Sunday, November 8, 2020 12:30 PM 12:30
Monday, November 30, 2020 1:30 PM 13:30

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Organization

Our partner this month is us! Viz for Social Good is looking to visualize our own data.

Viz for Social Good empowers mission-driven organizations to harness the power of data visualization for social change. We bring together passionate data professionals with social organizations to collaborate on data visualization projects to tackle critical social issues.

Each month, we organize a data visualization hackathon designed to provide social organizations with the pro bono data volunteers to have insightful dashboards and to understand how data can be used to advance their missions.

We are proud to partner with over 30 organizations globally, including UNICEF, UNDP, Stanford University, World Resources Institute, and Kiron. VFSG was named a finalist in the Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards and was awarded second place at the 2017 Information is Beautiful Awards. One of our projects was showcased at the UN General Assembly.

Project Information

You all - our global volunteers - have contributed amazing visualizations to our partner nonprofits. Now it's time for us to visualize your efforts. Our end goal is to: 1) inspire more data professionals to join our initiative by seeing the impact they will be able to make through creating visualizations and 2) to showcase to charities how data can help them achieve their mission much more effectively.

Call-to-Action

Encourage more data professionals to join VFSG to contribute their skills for social change
Encourage more social organizations to harness the power of data visualization

Audience

Data professionals who are passionate about using data for good
Social organizations, especially those ones that are currently not leveraging data and don’t understand the value of using data

Use of Data Visualization

Selected visualizations will be used on all of our communication channels, including the website, social media, blog, and more.

Data

Project data about our past projects and submissions

Data

*Disclaimer: all the submission data are publicly available on other channels such as Twitter and Tableau Public, but please feel free to reach out to us, if you wish to remove your records.

** If your submission record, for any reason, was missing, please feel free to reach out to info@vizforsocialgood.com.

Deadline to submit

November 30th, 2020

How to participate

· Sign up as a volunteer, if you haven’t already.

· Join Viz for Social Good Slack and project channel #project-2020-vfsg

· Submit your visualization to Viz for Social Good.

· Use social media tags @VizFSG, #vizforsocialgood

· Attend a live virtual event, where you may get the opportunity to pitch your visualizations to the Viz for Social Good team. RSVP link will be shared soon.