I’ve posted my entries for the 2006 Data Visualization competition sponsored by Business Intelligence Network and Stephen Few. I used JMP for most of the data manipulation and prototyping and then traced and edited the graphs with OmniGraffle, a nice Mac OS X graphics application. My process ended up being a lot of work so I didn’t get things as polished as I would like, but I think the experience will at least help me learn more when I see the winning entries.
There were four scenarios with a problem description and the raw data to use to create the visualzation. Above is part of my budget visualization solution. A fifth scenario was to do anything you like, and I updated the OWASA reservoir status graphs I did a few months ago.