Data visualisation challenge gives an opportunity for university students to learn geospatial data visualisation techniques in practice when they take part as a group into a competition, where teams create real-world data visualisation solutions based on TURP community needs and established cases. The learning process is mainly of-campus, based on teams working and seeking for advice and mentoring support from the universities’ experts.
A major part of the challenge has been a face-to-face gathering of the team, which COVID-19 prohibits partially since the COVID-19 restrictions began. Since 1st June 2020, in Tanzania, there were no restrictions for COVID-19 when the government opened the Universities. However, we would like to use this opportunity for 2020 visualisation challenge to be coordinated in an online platform which we developed to be used during COVID-19 period.
Background
Tanzanian cities are vulnerable to floods and climate change impacts due to rapid and uncontrolled urban growth and insufficient urban planning. Digital (spatial) data can provide valuable insights and evidence on how cities can be planned, lived and developed in a more resilient manner. This competition aims at finding data visualisation solutions, which increase understanding of resilient urban development in Tanzania.
All information about the challenge: https://resilienceacademy.ac.tz/dataviz-announcement-2020/
Data repository: https://crd.resilienceacademy.ac.tz/