The "Data and I" Storytelling Competition invites you to creatively share your unique experiences with data! As part of Love Data Week 2025, this competition provides a platform for you to reflect on your personal relationship with data. It’s a chance to explore and express how data plays a role in your life - whether through academic studies, research projects, professional work, or everyday interactions.
Theme: Data and I - Personal stories, challenges, or insights on working with data in studies or research
Eligibility: Open to all ECU students, faculty, and staff
Submission format: Visual works (e.g., cartoons, images, memes, pictures) with a brief written explanation (up to 200 words) on how it relates to the theme.
Submission deadline: February 6th, 2025
We will conduct public voting for the top 2 submissions from February10th to 20th, 2025. The winners will be emailed on February 21st, 2025, the last day of Love Data Week.
Winner will receive a gift bag including a fantastic wireless charger and more!
We are excited to present the winning submissions from the 2025 "Data and I" Storytelling Competition! These insightful and creative stories offer a personal perspective on working with data in research and teaching. Thank you to everyone who participated and voted - your support helped make this competition a success!
Winner 1. "Changing 100 Years of a Paradigm" (By Alexandre Rezende Vieira)
Personal history: Dental caries has been defined as multifactorial and the result of the intersection of a susceptible host, a diet rich in added sugars, and the presence of cariogenic bacteria. For the last century, dental caries studies mostly focused on microbes. Very little emphasis has been given to the host. We proposed that much of the variation of the disease was related to the genetics of the host. We changed dentistry by using molecular genetics. We were the first to scan the genome and correctly predicted some of the genes involved in dental caries. We were also the first to demonstrate mechanistically how genes may lead to increased susceptibility to the disease. It is now accepted that dental caries has a genetic component that can protect some and make others more susceptible to the disease. This concept helps to explain the current presentation of the disease in populations, in which 20% of people have 80% of the disease, a phenomenon called polarization. Nowadays, the definition of dental caries includes a description that the disease is influenced by the interplay between the environment and the individual susceptibility to the condition (a.k.a. their genes).
Winner 2. "Cartoon re data" (By Walter J. Pories)
