STUDENT DATA VISUALISATION CHALLENGE
Data visualization challenges offer university students and recent graduates hands-on opportunities to learn geospatial data visualization by working in teams on real-world projects. Partnering with companies, government agencies, NGOs, and other institutions, participants use authentic datasets and address genuine community needs. Teams primarily work off-campus, independently developing solutions with guidance from university mentors. This collaborative setup benefits students with practical experience while providing partner organizations innovative and actionable data visualization solutions.
Year: 2019
Flood-Resilient Cities: Visualizing Community-Centered Urban Solutions
This visualization challenge tackles escalating flood risks in East African coastal cities, focusing on Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. It engages emerging data scientists and urban planners to create community-centered visualizations that translate complex flood data into actionable insights for municipal authorities and local residents. The challenges span waste management and flood prevention, historical flood analysis, and community risk communication, addressing resilience from municipal planni...
Impacted Students: 259
Geospatial Data Used: 20
Year: 2020
Data-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Cities
This visualization challenge unites emerging data scientists, urban planners, and environmental advocates to address urgent urban resilience issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, focusing on urban environmental management, infrastructure resilience, and integrated urban planning. Participants gain hands-on experience transforming complex geospatial datasets from partners like the World Bank and local initiatives into impactful visualizations that support sustainable development and climate adaptati...
Impacted Students: 202
Geospatial Data Used: 26
Year: 2025
Water Security & Climate Resilience Visualization Challenge: Transforming Data into Actionable Insights for Tanga and Mwanza Cities
The visualization challenge focuses on addressing critical water security and climate resilience issues in Tanzania’s rapidly growing urban centers, particularly Mwanza and Tanga cities, which face significant flooding risks, inadequate wastewater management, and environmental pollution due to industrial effluents. By utilizing flood data from Mwanza’s Mirongo River and wastewater data from Export Processing Zones, managed through the Climate Risk Database (CRD), the challenge aims to support in...
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