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SSA SCV Di Cook Award

Open-Source Statistical Software Award by Section on Statistical Computing and Visualisation

Call for Submission

Submissions for the 2025 Di Cook Award are now open!

Eligibility

  1. The Award is open to students, or students who graduated within one year of the application due date, of any Australian educational institute.
  2. The Award is not open to any work that has won another software competition or award, although the applicant may submit separate work that is significantly different to any previously winning work.
  3. The applicant must have begun the development while enrolled as a student.
  4. The applicant does not need to be an SSA member to apply for this award.
  5. Individuals or teams are eligible to participate in this competition.
  6. If the software development was a team effort, the major contribution should be that of the students.
  7. The submitted software must be open-source and actively maintained at the time of entry.

Criteria

The applicant must submit:

The applicant may also optionally submit:

All of these items should be submitted by completing the application form at Forms before the application deadline. All submitted materials must be in English.

Judges & Assessors

  1. Assessors will be drawn from expert statistical software developers who are not entrants in the current round.
  2. Assessors will be preferably drawn from outside of Victoria and Tasmania.
  3. Assessors give input by completing the assessor form similar to the one supplied under Forms.
  4. The judging panel will comprise committee members of the Statistical Computing and Visualisation Section of the Statistical Society of Australia or other members selected by the SSA SCV Committee.
  5. Assessors for this competition will be decided after close of submission upon consultation with the judging panel.
  6. A judging panel will collate assessors input to decide on the winner.
  7. The decision of the judging panel is final.

You will need to complete the application form.

Important Dates

Date What
Aug 6, 2025 Opening of submissions
Fri Oct 31, 2025 Close of submissions
Dec 1, 2025 Announcement of the award winner

Prize

The awardee will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and an opportunity to present their work at an event planned in 2025.

All applications of sufficient quality will have their tutorial (if supplied) made available on the website (https://statsocaus.github.io/dicook-award/) with its introduction and link to the tutorial circulated to SSA Vic members and other avenues.

Corrections

If you see mistakes or want to suggest changes, please create an issue on the source repository.