Award: $15,000
Deadline: 10/28/2014

Description

With the growing amount of health care data available, there are opportunities to inform policy decisions like never before. VizRisk, sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services, is the first behavioral health care visualization challenge, intended to help policy makers make decisions on the future of health care policy.

Participating

If you are eligible and interested in participating, follow these steps to partake in the challenge:

1. Sign up
2. Choose at least two datasets to visualize, and create your visualizations
3. Reach out to one of the HHS mentors
4. Submit your project any time before October 28^th, 2014

Submissions

Submissions consist of a video pitch, a demo, and a 250-word written explanation of the project. Winners will be notified by November 24, 2014.

The winners will be decided based on the innovation, design, relevance, and scientific excellence of their project.

Awards

The awards are structured as follows:

Grand Prize - $6000
Second Prize - $3000
Third Prize - $2000

In addition to the three top prizes, the top project in each of the four judgment areas (innovation, design, relevance, and scientific excellence) will be awarded $1000.

More Informaiton

For more information, visit the challenge website at www.hhsvizrisk.org

Related:

• Innocentive Challenge: Novel Approaches for Predicting Life Expectancy
• Interview: Gary Shorter, Director of Data Science, Quintiles on Big Data for Healthcare
• Interview: Leo Meyerovich, Graphistry on Browser-based Interactive Big Data Visualization