This hackathon is a pre-event for the Postman Student Summit held August 7-8, 2021. Register here!

Overview 

Charts, maps, styles, oh my! Data is as powerful as it is understandable.

Use Postman’s visualizer feature to make sense of data returned from an API in a way that adds value and understanding.

A pie chart of a Github user’s most used programming languages? A map showing the location of the International Space Station at this very moment? Get creative!

To visualize data you can use simple HTML and CSS, or incorporate any visualization libraries of your choice such as d3.js, chart.js, OpenLayers street maps etc.

How to participate 

1. Create a free Postman account here

2. Create a public workspace 

3. In your public workspace, add a collection with at least one request to an API

4. Visualize the response data your way using the Visualizer feature!

5. Include your collection URL and a short video demo (<2 mins) in your submission

6. Register for the Postman Student Summit to catch the winner announcement!
   
   

Schedule

Rules 

1. Solo submissions only
2. One submission per person
3. Must use Postman’s Visualizer feature
4. Project must be started and completed within the Hackathon start and end date (Jul 14 - 28)
5. Submissions must include a short video showing your project in use (< 2 mins)
6. No racist/violent/sexual/offensive content

Learning Resources 

• How to visualize data in Postman

• Postman Visualizer Demo 

• Visualize API responses in Postman (by Valentin Despa)

• How-To: Graphing COVID Time Series Data Using Chart.js and Postman Visualizer

• Visualizer examples and templates

Example Submissions 

Get inspired! To see the visualizations in action, fork these collections and run their requests. Then check the "Visualize" tab in the response.

• Covid-19 by Country (vanilla JS)

• Map of the current location of ISS (d3.js)

• Monthly Land-Surface Temperature heatmap (d3.js)

• Safe bathroom finder streetmap (OpenLayers)

• Current location of ISS (d3.js)

A note about prizes

Due to International prize law, we cannot award prizes with cash value to students residing in the following regions: Brazil, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Crimea. Students in these regions can still submit projects and compete for the non-cash-value prizes: a 1on1 with a Postmanaut and a feature in the Postman blog.

Got questions?

Check out our FAQ!  Is your question not answered there? Come ask it in the #hackathon channel in the Postman Student Community Discord!

$400 in prizes

• Usefulness
  How much value and insight does your visualization add to response data from an API?
• Documentation
  How well documented is your collection? How well does your short video (<2 mins) demonstrate your visualization?
• Style
  How visually stunning, readable and clean is your visualizer output?
• Technical Merit
  How cleverly and skillfully did your project visualize data? Extra merit given to submissions that incorporate elements such as custom scripting logic, third party style or scripting libraries, interactive components, mock servers or a custom-built API.