Entry Form: 2013 Visualizing Research@Tufts Awards
Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2013 by Midnight
1. Entry Category
Please choose one of the following categories for your entry. A single entry cannot be submitted in more
than one category. However, you may submit several entries as long as they are each in different
categories:
__ Photography and Illustrations
__ Videos
__ Software
2. Title of Work:
3. Period when visualization was created (e.g. Dec 09 – Jan 10)
From ______________ To ______________
4. Submitters Names and Titles
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5. Contact Person
Name: __________________
Institution/School/Dept: __________________
Email Address: ______________________
6. Caption
Please write a caption for your entry that will provide the judges with some background information on
your entry. Since judges may not be familiar with your discipline, please try to make your description as
non-technical as possible.
Please try to include the following in your caption:
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A description of what is visualized: What are we looking at?
An explanation of why this information is interesting.
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Detailed information about the elements of the visualization: What is the meaning of the colors,
symbols etc.?
A statement about what we should learn by looking at the visualization
Video Entries
Since members of the jury will focus their judging on 5 minutes of your video, please indicate the starting
timestamp (in min:sec) for the 5-min video excerpt you would like the judges to focus on: ____ : ____
Software Entries
If you are submitting a software entry, please also give detailed instructions on how members of the
judging committee can demonstrate the software for themselves. Since the judging committee will only
be able to spend 5 minutes judging your software, please indicate up to 5 functions you would like them to
focus on:
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If more convenient, please feel free to submit an accompanying 5-min video demonstration of your
software that focuses on the 5 points listed above.
Since providing jury members with access to the software may take some time, people submitting in this
category should send by January 1st, an email to vis-awards@tufts.edu informing us of your intent to
submit a software entry and how we might contact you to discuss it.