Dear colleagues, The call for submissions for the 2025 PacificVis Storytelling Contest is now live. ~ ~ ~ ~ The Visual Data Storytelling contest celebrates its 9th year in 2025. This contest aims to encourage students, researchers, and visualization practitioners to demonstrate the value of data visualization through compelling visual data stories. This contest celebrates the emerging data communication genre, including data storytelling, narrative visualizations, explanatory notebooks, and visual essays. The contest will be held in conjunction with IEEE PacificVis 2025 from April 22-25, 2025 at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Storytellers are invited to submit visual data-driven stories that draw upon any of these areas. In addition, entries that focus on computational journalism and artistic design projects are encouraged. Unlike contests such as the IEEE VAST challenge or the IEEE SciVis Contest, the data for the PacificVis visual data storytelling contest is intentionally left unspecified; storytellers are free to choose any publicly available dataset(s). Similarly, the task that storytellers are to accomplish is to successfully communicate a message or series of messages (i.e., a narrative, a series of insights) using data visualization techniques. The story's themes can draw from any topic, including current affairs, history, natural disasters, and research findings from the sciences and humanities. Storytelling submissions may take several forms, including: - images - videos - data notebooks - websites - mixed reality - audio-visual projects - other unconventional forms of media Please see the contest website (https://visstory.github.io/) for full details and requirements. Submissions may be made on PCS (submit to the PacificVis 2025 conference, PacificVis 2025 Visual Data Storytelling Contest track). Important deadlines (all dates are midnight AOE). - Initial submissions: February 9, 2025 - Notification date: February 23, 2025 - Camera read submissions: March 16, 2025 Juanjuan Long and Chris Bryan Storytelling Contest Co-Chairs