With just 2 weeks left to go in our UN Global Pulse Challenge, we want to invite you, the visualizing community, to submit your entries soon. The deadline is July 25, 2011.

In case you missed the original call, here's a nutshell reminder: UN Global Pulse, a new innovations initiative at the United Nations, is exploring ways to rapidly understand how people around the world are affected by crises – from food shortages to rising fuel prices to natural disasters – as they unfold. In 2010, they launched a large-scale SMS-text survey to ask people in five countries spanning the globe how they are dealing with the lingering impacts of the 2008 economic collapse.

Visualizing.org has teamed up with UN Global Pulse to challenge you to visualize the results of this unprecedented mobile phone survey. How do people in different nations describe their quality of life? What types of changes do people make in order to cope with economic uncertainty? How do individuals perceive their future outlook?

Our dataset consist of answers to five questions focusing on economic perceptions by people from India, Iraq, Mexico, Uganda, and Ukraine. The winner of this challenge will receive an all-expense paid trip to the United Nations in New York to attend a high-level UN Global Pulse presentation to UN Member States in September.

Get full details about the UN Global Pulse Challenge here. And good luck visualizing!!