You can help crown the 2026 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Data Viz Champions, a part of UW—Madison’s Love Data Week celebration! Audience votes determine Love It! Award winners.
Voting is easy!
Review the galleries, and be sure to check out UW—Madison’s entries—Barnabas Valko (student) and Andrew Hahn (faculty/staff) —winners of the 2026 Bucky Data Viz Challenge. Then cast your vote!
Gallery and voting for student visualizations
Gallery and voting for faculty and staff visualizations
The fine print
- You must be a student, faculty, or staff member at a BTAA institution to vote.
- You may only vote once in each category.
- Voting closes at noon (CT) on Friday, February 13.
- A second award for submissions, the Chart Topper: Judges’ Award for Excellence, will be selected by a judges’ scoring rubric.
To learn more about how UW—Madison entries were chosen, please visit Bucky’s Data Viz Challenge. For inspiration, review the gallery of all our submissions.