Result

The Opendata Visualization Contest was held on 3rd Nov. 2016 at mainly in D-03 Booth in Exibition Hall of Kobe International Convention Center.

The program was as follows.

15:00 - 15:25 Keynote Speech (Dr. Shuichi Onami, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center)

15:25 - 15:30 Sponsor Speech (Princeton Ltd.)

15:30 - 15:35 Demo Overview (Ismail Arai, Chair of the contest)

15:35 - 15:50 Contest (5 minutes presentation for each group)

15:50 - 16:00 Award Ceremony

Keynote Speech

Dr. Shuichi Onami gave a keynote speech about a potential of visualization in biological open data.

We could know that there are tremendous biological open data all over the world and intoxicating charm of visualization results.

Sponsor Speech

Mr. Yasuo Kimoto (Princeton Ltd.) who is a sponsor of the contest gave an introduction of the company and its production.

Demo Overview

Dr. Ismail Arai (Contest Chair, National Institte of Technology, Akashi College) explained an overview of Demo.

Contest

Three presentators who can accomplish inplement each proposed demo by the day of SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015.

1: CFD Data Visualization with Oculus Rift / Yu Han@Kobe University

Ms. Yu Han selected the Task 1. for CFD Data. Though she takes part without sumitting her entry beforehand, it was a nice presentation.

2: Visualizing open data of input-output tables in Kobe city / Yoshi Fujiwara@University of Hyogo

Dr. Yoshi Fujiwara selected the Urban Data task. He showed a demo which is visualizing input-output data provided by Kobe city into a chord diagram by using D3.js.

Paper (ACM Digital Library): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2818538

3: A Tree Style Visualization Method for Cell Divisions of Embryos / Kiri Nakata, Tsuyoshi Tatsukawa, Ismail Arai@National Institute of Technology, Akashi College

Mr. Kiri Nakata, Mr. Tsuyoshi Tatsukawa and Dr. Ismail Arai selected the task 1 for SSBD. Mr. Kiri Nakata and Mr. Tsuyoshi Tatsukawa showed a demo which is visualizing cell divisions of embryos as a binary tree. Furthermore, the visualizing system could detect similar process of cell divisions from two different data.

Paper (ACM Digital Library): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2818537

Award Celemony

As a result of judgement by four jurors, Kiri Nakata and Tsuyoshi Tatsukawa won both The Best Demo Award and Princeton Award!

All the presentator got each extra prize from Prinston Ltd. according to their rank.

The Best Demo Award, Princeton Award, and LCD monitor (Princeton Ltd.)

The 2nd: Speaker(Princeton Ltd.)

The 3rd: USB drive for smartphones(Princeton Ltd.)