Compstat 2004, Prague

Competition for the Best Presented Poster
prize donated by the ASC

Background

After successful poster competitions at Compstat 2000 in Utrecht and Compstat 2002 in Berlin, the ASC committee decided to repeat the offer of a prize to encourage participants presenting material through posters to give more attention to the design and presentation aspects of their work. The motivation and criteria behind this proposal are discussed on the main Poster Prize page.

Criteria

The posters were judged on the quality of their design and their effectiveness at communicating their message. The nature or quality of the substantive content of the poster was not considered as a factor.

The prize for this competition was £100.

The Poster Competition

There were 160 posters presented at Compstat, in two sessions. The judges were:

Andrew Westlake, representing the ASC
Pilar Muñoz, representing the IASC European Board
Josef Tvrdík, representing the Compstat Local Organisers

The judges viewed the posters independently, and then came together to reach a decision about the prize. The improvement in quality noted in Berlin seems to be continuing, perhaps the result of better publicity to the authors of the existence of the prize. Many of the authors seemed to have made some specific effort to respond to the challenge of the prize, by introducing eye-catching components or by using the two-dimensional space. However, there are still none that reach the highest standards seen at some conferences in other disciplines.

The Winner

Only a small number of posters were in contention for the prize, and the judges were unanimous in agreeing to award to prize to:

Oleg Nenadic, Walter Zucchini, Daniel Adler, Guenther Kratz
Institute for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Goettingen

Computational issues in creating an online atlas

This poster has a good initial impact, and is above average in all other respects.

Click here for a larger image.

Highly Commended

A number of posters were highly commended by the judges. None were in final consideration for the overall prize, but all were particularly strong in some respect. Details will be added here as the images become available.

  
  1. Good effort with limited resources – only A4 sheets but used space well
  • Michaela Denk & Peter Hackl (Vienna)
    DIECOFIS: Assessment of Statistical Data Integration Techniques
  • Cwiklinska-Jurkowska & Jurkowski (Bydgoszez, Poland)
    Effectiveness in ensemble of classifiers and their diversity on big medical data sets
  • Vaněček (Prague)
    Estimators of generalised RCA models
  
  1. Clear presentation and good choice of content, but lacking impact when viewed from a distance
  • Sánchez & Ocaña (Barcelona)
    Linear mixed models applied to non-linear functional dependence
  • van Berkum, Boon & di Bucchianico (Eindhoven)
    Statlab: an interactive teaching tool for DoE
  • Zarzo (Valencia)
    A graphical procedure to assess the uncertainty of scores in principle component analysis
  
  1. Strong Impact, but confused or lacking in structure or detail
  • Kao, Tzeng & Chen (Taipei)
    Visualisation of multivariate qualitative spatial data with generalised association plots
  • Wu (Taipei)
    Generalised association plots with a covariate adjustment
  • Sakaori (Tokyo)
    Power comparison of permutation tests in functional regression model
  
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