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  September 2020 Theme – Best Visualization of the Month Contest

  Posted by Leslie Cook (Adm) on September 1, 2020 at 2:54 am

  Hello again, UAI Members,

  It is an exciting day at UAI! The August 2020 member favorite for the “Best Visualization of the Month” contest was announced and now I present to you the theme for the September 2020 “Best Visualization of the Month” contest…

  September 2020 Theme: Outage Management Data Visualizations – Some areas of North America have already been effected by storms and for other areas, storm season is closing in. During storm season, every utility deals with outages. Let’s take the month of September to share your outage management data visualizations. How are you working to improve your visualizations this storm season? Maybe you want to beef up your visualizations this storm season. By sharing your data visualizations for outage management, you could be helping your peers with ideas on how to improve their visualizations. Examples of things to share: distribution outage management data visualizations or mapping distribution heat maps, etc.

  In case you missed it last month… What is the UAI Best Visualization of the Month contest? 

  In collaboration with the UAI Connect Ambassadors — a team of member volunteers that help drive engagement and encourage member collaboration on UAI Connect — UAI will be implementing a new monthly contest on the Ask Your Network forum on UAI Connect. Each month, we will post a themed “Best Visualization of the Month” contest. The monthly theme will be selected by our UAI Connect Ambassadors. We also encourage you to submit your ideas for monthly themes on an ongoing basis. You can submit those to me at lcook@utilityanalytics.com or just post your ideas on the Ask Your Network discuss forum.

  This monthly contest is set-up to encourage you to post your data visualizations in regard to the given month’s theme. All during the month, we hope you will reply to that month’s contest post to share your data visualizations (no matter how simple, functional, elaborate, or complicated) and include a short description as it relates to your visualization. You can attached your visualization to your reply or embed it within the reply.

  One week prior to the end of the month, we will reply to the post with a survey link that will poll members to select their favorite visualization. When selecting your favorite each month, consider criteria like, how automated is the visualization, where is the visualization pulling the data, how easy is the visualization to understand, etc. (of course this criteria is not required, but we wanted to pass along some example criteria to consider while selecting your favorite visualization).

  We will close the poll at the end of the day on the last business day of the month. We will announce the member favorite at the beginning of the next month. The member favorite will receive pride and glory, bragging rights, and a $10 Starbucks gift card! Our hope is this will be a valuable monthly exercise that is an opportunity to share and learn from one another, help encourage a little spirit of competition, and that you will have some fun!
   
  Let the games for September begin!

  Have fun, 

       Leslie

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  Leslie Cook
  Membership & Digital Engagement Manager
  Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
  719-203-8650, lcook@endeavorb2b.com
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