Pacific Dataviz Challenge: What is it?
The Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a competition for everyone—of any age, background or skillset—that encourages storytelling, design, innovation and technical skill in the visualisation of Pacific data.
Participants, individually or as a team, are invited to create data visualisations that highlight important issues or opportunities facing the Pacific region.
Your submission could be an infographic, animation, dashboard, web app, poster, PDF report, drawing—almost anything you can imagine and create.
Powered by the Pacific Data Hub, the foremost portal for Pacific knowledge, the Pacific Dataviz Challenge gives you the opportunity to compete for both bragging rights and prizes from a total pool of $15,000 USD.
Rewards
The Pacific Dataviz Challenge 2025 features three prize categories, each awarding two prizes – one for the best Interactive visualisation and one for the best Static visualisation:
- Open (USD 3,000 per prize): Open to all participants worldwide, recognising the most inspiring and innovative dataviz entries, regardless of age, nationality or residence.
- Pacific (USD 3,000 per prize): Reserved for individuals or teams who self-identify as Pacific Islanders in the entry form, highlighting talent from and for the Pacific region.
- Pacific Youth (USD 1,500 per prize): For Pacific entrants under the age of 26 (born after 2000), to support and celebrate the next generation of dataviz creators in the region.
A total of six prizes will be awarded — rewarding creativity, diversity, and impact across the Pacific and the World. The prizes celebrate global creativity while highlighting emerging talents from the Pacific, contributing to a more inclusive future for data visualization in the region.
Open
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Interactive
$3000 USD
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Static
$3000 USD
Pacific
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Interactive
$3000 USD
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Static
$3000 USD
Pacific Youth
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Interactive
$1500 USD
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Static
$1500 USD
Dataviz for Beginners
From data amateurs to data analysts, the Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a competition for all. Young people, artists, students and specialists alike are invited to dive in and develop their data visualisation (‘dataviz’) skills.
The art of representing complex information visually and comprehensibly, dataviz transforms raw numbers into graphs, maps, charts, or other visual forms—telling us a story on trends, patterns and relationships within the data.
Another important aspect to the competition, ‘open data’ refers to data that are publicly available to anyone for any purpose.
Throughout the competition period, we’ll be sharing resources for dataviz beginners—subscribe to stay informed.
Participate in the challenge
Why participate and how
Learning a new skill, burnishing your CV, building a better understanding of important regional issues—the Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a chance to showcase your talent while making real-world impact.
Take charge of your learning and development in dataviz and, through our programme of events and webinars, connect with like-minded dataviz creators plus world-leading experts in the dataviz field. You’ll also gain exposure to new tools and techniques in this rapidly growing discipline.
Participating is a great way to build your skills, connections and credentials.
Categories
The Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a worldwide competition and everyone competes in the open category by default. There are also Pacific and Pacific Youth categories which have additional criteria for entry.
Static and interactive visualisations are judged and awarded separately.
More information on the competition categories will be shared at the challenge launch.
The official dataset(s) and theme in 2025
Participants in the Pacific Dataviz Challenge need to use at least one dataset from an official list which changes for each year’s competition with the theme.
Participants are also free to incorporate other datasets from the Pacific Data Hub, or any other source of open data. All data sources will need to be listed in the submission form.
The 2025 theme and dataset(s) will be shared here from 1 June. Subscribe to stay informed.