Notice

Event
China Data Content Competition 2021 is open for registration from April to September. The competition is co-hosted by the College of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University and Data-viz Education Foundation. Professionals at media, institutions and universities are all welcome to enter for awards and register for conference. With the theme of "Data Points & Creative Visualization-- Discover the value of data story-telling". It aims to improve the utilization level of information, deeply excavate the value of data narrative and further promote the creative presentation of data by means of data visualization.
Award Categories
China Data Content Competition 2021 welcomes original works and data products in the field of data content and visualization, entries include but are not limited to: graphics, information graph, data cartoon, interactives and videos, etc. All works should be submitted online in the form of links.

Requirements

Entries should publish works between July 1, 2020 and July 28, 2021.

Works can be participated by individuals or institutions, regardless of identity or number.

First of all, one of the seven Professional Awards should be selected for each work. At the same time, one Public Regard Award can be selected.

Jury's Special Awards (Outstanding Individual / Team) and Social Responsibility Awards (Best Organizational Award, Best Data Service) do not need to be registered.

Works can not be re registered, if re registered, subject to the last time.

Public Regard

  • Centennial of the Party

    During the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, the competition is calling for excellent data content works related to cultural, economic and social development with the theme of CPC's 100th anniversary.

  • Women and Development

    A special data exploration and indispensable concern, devoted to providing a more diversified and rational data field for women's issues in China. The suggested data topics include but are not limited to women's social roles, career development, women's media practitioners, media personnel and women's status quo in media education, women's middle and high-level management and leadership in media and other industries, women's development problems in the workplace, women's cognition and ability of self-protection and prevention from possible harassment, social and policy support for women's development and other related aspects.

  • Moving Towards Carbon Neutrality

    The suggested topic scope focuses on climate change response in a broad sense and shows the global climate change situation and the environmental and socio-economic impacts. Response plans comprehensively from carbon reduction, carbon peaking, climate adaptation, etc. it is including but not limited to the carbon neutrality path in various elements such as international governance, national policy, economy, law, energy, and urban development, etc.
Timeline
Categories
Professional Awards and Public Regard Awards are open for Registration, The Jury's Special Awards and Social Responsibility Awards are not for registration (Auto-registration). The awards include gold, silver, bronze and nominations.
Type Awards Description Gold Silver Bronze Nominations Award
Professional Awards Best Data Story-Telling No limit to form 1 2 3 4
Best Information Design Poster Graphic Poster 1 2 3 4
Best Mobile Information Design Mobile terminal 1 1 1 3
Best Visualization-videos Short and medium video within 20 minutes 1 1 1 3
Best Mobile Interactive Mobile terminal 1 1 1 3
Best Screen Interactive Computer or large screen 1 1 1 3
Best Use of Data No limit to form 1 1 1 3
Public Regard Awards Centennial of the founding of the party 3
Women and Development 3
Moving Towards Carbon Neutrality 3
Jury's Special Awards Outstanding Individual / Team 3
Social Responsibility Awards Best Organizational Award 10
Best Data Service 3
Jury

Xu Hong

Professor，School of Journalism & Communication, Peking University

Ms Xu was Executive vice Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University since March 2006 and led the setup of the Financial Media Program in 2013 when worked at the HSBC Business School, Peking University. Before that, she served as professor and PhD supervisor at the College of Journalism, Renmin University of China from 1998 to early 2002. She was previously a senior journalist on international news for 20 years.

*Judges above are in alphabetical order.

Counselor

Chen Ying

Dr. Ying Chen, Senior Research Fellow at RIEco, CASS, Professor at CASS Graduate School

Deputy Director of CASS Research Center for Sustainable Development (RCSD) . She worked as a Lead Author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and AR6. She is a vice Chairman of Chinese National Committee for Future Earth (CNC-FE), vice Director of Environmental Economics Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, vice Director of Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Committee of Chinese Meteorological Society. Her works were awarded for Pushan Award for Excellent Paper on International Economics，Sun Yefang Award for Excellent Paper on Economic.
Review rules

There are seven professional awards, and each entry can submit in one category and paralled category of Public Regard Awarda. The Jury's Special Awards (Outstanding Individual / Team) and Social Responsibility Awards (Best Organizational Award、 Best data Service).are not for registration (Auto-registration).

The "Outstanding Individual / Team" Award is selected form those nonimated by judges. Awards are given to authors and their instructors.

The“Best Organizational Award" refers to the top 10 universities or institutions with the largest number of submitted works.

The "Best Data Service"is for the institutions those provide data and data services

Works cannot be submitted repeatedly, and the last submission shall prevail.

The jury will evaluate and score the works from dimensions including issue theme , information design and video presentation, technology development and data visualization, and data application.

Longlist will be announcement on September 6 2021 via the website and official WeChat account.

Winners will be announcement on September 23 2021 via official website and official WeChat account

Data Download

Data Requirements

contestants can download different data after logging in. Please indicate the data source when using the data.
Data Support

  • iResearch

    iResearchhas been dedicated to business decision-making services for a long time. Driven by technology and data, iResearch provides clients with professional industry analysis, data products, market research, strategic consulting, digital solution and other professional services, helping clients improve their cognitive level, profitability and comprehensive competitiveness, empowering business decision-making. iResearch has been committed to research in the fields of Internet, new economy and datamation for 18 years, and has over 200 professional analysts. iResearch has published more than 3,000 reports in accumulation, and its research results are cited in more than 80% of Internet companies’ IPO reports.
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  • Financial China Information & Technology Co., Ltd.

    Founded in 2002, Financial China information & Technology limited companyis a well-known domestic financial information service provider, focusing on the financial field for nearly 20 years. Since its establishment, it has been committed to providing continuous database services, data application services and date solutions for financial regulatory agencies, governments, universities, and numerous financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, fund companies, securities companies, trust companies, which has been widely recognized by market.
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  • Hongmai Juxin

    Hongmai Juxin, a leading big data marketing integrated service company in China, relies on years of technology, data and service experience, and with the help of the classic business model of "product + service", focuses on providing public opinion management, marketing communication, digital solutions and other services for all kinds of government and enterprise customers.
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  • Maimai Data Research Institution (MDRI)

    Maimai Data Research Institution (MDRI) We understand the people behind the data. Maimai, China's leading business and social networking platform, is committed to helping professionals achieve career dreams . Empowered by Maimai Talent big data platform, MDRI provides insights on society trends, industrial development, talent mobility and opportunity change from the perspective of people and career.
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  • Shanghai Minhang District Qingyue environmental protection information technology service center

    In January 2015, Shanghai Minhang District Qingyue environmental protection information technology service center was registered as a private non enterprise unit in Shanghai Minhang District Civil Affairs Bureau, and the business competent unit is Shanghai Minhang District ecological environment bureau. It is committed to using information technology to promote China's economic and social green, sustainable and high-quality development.
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  • Analysys QianFan

    Analysys QianFan Platform focusing on mobile Internet products and user data analysis. Through multiple data insight into digital user behavior of various industries.Data covering 45 industries and 315 subdivided fields are exclusively provided for participants.
    Available time: April 15-July 28
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  • Greenpeace

    Greenpeace is a global environmental protection organization dedicated to promoting positive change with practical actions, protecting the earth's environment and world peace.
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  • Qingbo public opinion

    Qingbo public opinion ,by integrating the text and video information of the whole internet, such as traditional media, portal websites, Weibo/WeChat, BBS and tiktok/Kwai, it can realize data-based public opinion analysis and intelligently track the propagation path, propagation trend and public opinion sentiment, etc. Provide data support for government enterprises and universities' special research, market competition research, brand communication and so on.
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  • TianYanCha

    TianYanCha is a big data solutions platform, which integrates data acquisition, data cleaning, data aggregation, data modeling and data application based on the unique core technology Graphic Database. The platform contains more than 230 million social entities'information, including enterprises, institutions, schools, law firms and etc. It realizes real-time updating on more than 300-dimensions information. TianYanCha can not only visualize the complex subject relationships, but also deeply excavate and analyze relevant data, warn risks as well. It forms a strong core of enterprise services system and enable every partner.
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  • Zhiwei Data

    Zhiwei Data is a leading company in business intelligence service in China. With a massive data reserve across the web, we provide real-time business intelligence driven by artificial intelligence technology. Zhiwei Data helps empower enterprises with a comprehensive, professional and smart intelligence service, encompassing public sensing，branding alert，intelligence reseach，intelligence Think-tank. We have abundant experience as a provider of China's top companies and institutions with a full range of business intelligence service.
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Technical Support

  • Hanabi

    Hanabi is a tool for making online data-visualized short videos, which recommends a variety of chart types according to different application scenarios. Videos can be exported and quickly shared with one click.
    How to obtain: Click "registration" in the upper right corner of the frontpage of the Competition website. Both new and registered users can get the 30-day video membership benefits of Hanabi.

  • Apache ECharts

    Apache ECharts is an open-sourced JavaScript visualization tool, which can run fluently on PC and mobile devices. It can be used to create intuitive, interactive, and highly-customizable charts.

  • Octoparse

    Octoparse:A Free, Simple, and Powerful Web Scraping Tool. Automate Data Extraction from websites within clicks without coding. Octoparse is everything you need for automatic data extraction. Quickly scrape web data without coding and turn web pages into structured data within clicks!
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  • DiVoMiner® Big Data Mining & Content Analysis Platform

    A one-stop textual content analysis platform conforms to academic standards. Support the whole processes from (quantitative & qualitative) data upload, data management, scientific sampling, inter-coder reliability test, content coding, and data statistics to visualization, not requiring any computer programming skills. Help to complete the work effectively with neat & effective team collaboration. Easily handle text classification, word segmentation, sentiment analysis, semantic network analysis, multilingual analysis etc. Access: DiVoMiner® Link
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Activity support

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Organizer

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Media Support

Xinhua International ; People's Daily Digital Communication Co., Ltd ; Peopledata ; Jiefang Daily Data News Center ; The Paper ; Lightning News ; Sogou ; Lanjing Finance ; Datagoo ; Beijing Xiaoyu Information Technology Co.Ltd ; RUC News Studio ; COPELL

Data Support

iResearch ; Financial China Information & Technology Co., Ltd ; Hongmai Juxin ; Greenpeace ; Maimai Data Research Institution (MDRI) ; Qingbo Public Opinion ; Shanghai Minhang District Qingyue environmental protection information technology service center ; TianYanCha ; Analysys QianFan ; Zhiwei Data

Technical Support

Apache ECharts ; Octoparse ; DiVoMiner® Big Data Mining & Content Analysis Platform ; Hylanda

Academic Support

School of HSBC Business at Peking University; School of Journalism & Communication at Peking University; School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China; School of Journalism, Fudan University; School of Journalism & Communication at Nanjing University; School of Design, Jiangnan University; College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University; School of Journalism and Communication (Shantou University); Macao Association for Internet Research (MAIR)

Institutional Support

School of Art and Communication, Beijing Technology and Business University; School of Digital Media & Design Arts, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; School of New Media, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication; School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University; The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North University of China; College of Literature and Journalism, Inner Mongolia University; School of Media Science / School of Journalism, Northeast Normal University; School of Journalism and Communication, Heilongjiang University; School of Humanity, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University; School of Humanities, Zhejiang University of Technology; School of Journalism & Communication, Nanchang University; School of Humanities, JiangXi University of Finance and Economics; School of Journalism and Communication, Shandong University; College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication, Ocean University of China; Journalism and Information Communication School, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; School of Journalism and Communication, Hubei University; School of Journalism and Culture Communication, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; College of Journalism and Communication, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology; College of Journalism and Communication, Hengyang Normal University; School of Journalism & Communication, Jinan University; School of Information Technology in Education, South China Normal University; School of Journalism and Communication, Chongqing University; School of Humanities, Chongqing Jiaotong University; College of Movie and Media, Sichuan Normal University; School of Journalism and Communication, China West Normal University; School of Literature and Communication, Yunnan Minzu University;Journalism Communication College, Xizang Minzu University; School of Journalism and Communication, Xi'an International Studies University; School of Journalism and Communication, Lanzhou University; School of Art and Literature, Shihezi University; School of Journalism & Communication, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Department of Cultural Communication, China University of Labor Relations; College of Radio and Television, Communication University of China, Nanjing; School of Literature and Media, Chongqing University of Education; School of Journalism and Communication, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University；