A diverse crowd of journalists, programmers, graphic designers, data analysts, community organizers, university students and others attended the event at the University of Arizona in Tucson, March 20-22. Nearly 100 people participated in the data visualization training day; 45 stayed through the weekend to work on 11 projects.
- Best Storytelling with Data Visualization: “No Timely Response”
- Best Data Insight: “Who Gets Asylum?”
- Best Data Visualization Team Project: “No Lawyer, No Voice”
- Audience Favorite: Arizona Dreamin’
- “Behind the Wall$”
- “Why They Leave”
- “Migrant Deaths on the Border”
- “Jumping the Line”
- “Corn & Immigration”
- “Becoming a Border Patrol Agent”
- “Migrant Deaths”
Migrahack judges were Phuong Ly, executive director of the Institute for Justice & Journalism; Carlos Scheidegger, assistant professor of the University of Arizona computer science department; Veronica Reyes-Escudero, associate librarian/Borderlands curator, UA Special Collections; Mary Feeney, associate librarian, UA Libraries; and Joe Ferguson, database journalist, Arizona Daily Star.