On February 14th, 2015, we conducted a one day “Design Challenge”, hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Cartography Lab, to learn what our hazardous waste dataset could tell us about Environmental Justice, the waste trade, and waste trade networks. By the time of the Challenge, 27% of the data from FOIA requests had been entered into a large spreadsheet. The goal was to see what stories/patterns/trends the students could discover from the data and what they could visualize--in one day! Students were given this large dataset and only limited direction and information about the project. A total of 17 students (7 individual and 5 pairs) particiapted, and all of them had something to share and present to the group by the end of the day. Scroll down to view the visualizations the students created. Click on an image to see the full product. See our published paper to learn the value of this Design Challenge!
