Data expo ‘09

Poster competition results

Congratulations to the winners and thanks again to everyone who entered!

First place

Congestion in the sky: Visualising domestic airline traffic with SAS (pdf, 550k). Rick Wicklin and Robert Allison, SAS Institute.

Second place

Delayed, Cancelled, On-Time, Boarding ... Flying in the USA (pdf, 13 meg). Heike Hofmann, Di Cook, Chris Kielion, Barret Schloerke, Jon Hobbs, Adam Loy, Lawrence Mosley, David Rockoff, Yuanyuan Huang, Danielle Wrolstad and Tengfei Yin, Iowa State University

Third place

A tale of two airports: An exploration of flight traffic at SFO and OAK. (pdf, 770k). Charlotte Wickham, UC Berkeley.

Honourable mention

Minimizing the Probability of Experiencing a Flight Delay (pdf, 7 meg). Tanujit Dey, David Phillips and Patrick Steele, College of William & Mary.

Other posters

• The Airline Data Set... What's the big deal? (pdf, 80k). Michael Kane and Jay Emerson, Yale.
• Make a Smart Choice on Booking Your Flight! (pdf, 2 meg) Yu-Hsiang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
• Airline Data for Raleigh-Durham International. Michael T. Crotty, SAS Institute Inc.
• Kaleidoscope Graphs. Mario A. Morales, Hunter College
• What Airlines Would You Avoid for Your Next Flight? Haolai Jiang and Jung-Chao Wang, Western Michigan University

If your poster isn't up yet, please email to me at hadley@rice.edu.