We’re delighted to announce that five students received awards at the 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, held this year in Norrköping, Sweden!

As every year, the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization hosted the Graph Drawing Contest, in which student teams participated in several categories as part of the Master course Graph Drawing Algorithms taught by Martin Nöllenburg. Guilherme Monteiro Oliveira, Florian Saß, and Jakob Speitkamp earned first place in the Creative Contest, while Stefan Brandmair and Luca Marius Cobzaru achieved third place honors in the automatic live challenge.

In the creative contest, participants were given a network and asked to design an appealing visualization that also reveals interesting insights into the underlying data. This year’s topic centered on the Netflix series Dark: Nodes in the graph represented events in the series with their involved characters, and edges captured the cause-and-effect relationships among them. In contrast to previous years, participants had the unique opportunity to design a 360° visualization that was displayed in Norrköping’s decision arena, a cylindrical 360-degree high-resolution display with a diameter of 6 meters. In this category, the student team of Florian Saß, Jakob Speitkamp, and Guilherme Monteiro Oliveira — supervised by Thomas Depian — won the first prize for their submission “Journey of a Time Machine”.