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Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Scientific and technological communities
Involvement in UN Partnerships: Yes
If yes, explain in detail: Visualizing partners with NGOs and nonprofits to: publicize and host their data sets, collect data visualizations and discussion around their data by creating a dat channel, and gain exposure and insight by collaborating on challenges and events. In 2011, Visualizing partnered with UN Global Pulse to host a data visualization challenge centered around their release of mobile data (http://www.visualizing.org/contests/un-global-pulse-visualization-challenge). Visualizing also partnered with UN Global Pulse on the Visualizing Marathon 2011 program, a series of 24-hour student data visualization competitions (http://www.visualizing.org/marathon2011). Visualizing also partnered with UN Development Programme on a data visualization challenge centered around the release of their 2011 Human Development Report.
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