Last update: 30th April

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Even if you are not a journalist, learning from data-driven journalism principles can heighten the quality of your datavisualisation projects. I will walk you through how I applied six lessons in a project which ended up in the Top 10 of Tableau’s competition Ironviz in 2021.

Speculative and Critical Design is an approach to design that explores alternative perspectives, possible futures, and the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies and systems. It aims to provoke critical thinking, debate, and reflection on the role of design in shaping the future. How can dataviz be a part of this kind of projects?

Many scientific journals offer peer review, and sometimes editorial and statistical reviewing. However, specialist graphical reviews are less common. This talk introduces the opportunities and challenges of setting up a panel of experts in the visual display of data to review graphs and charts submitted with our papers, to improve the display of data.

Our talk explores the award-winning "Happy People, Happy Planet" poster's collaborative creation process for a global data visualization contest. Discover how geospatial visualization and the project's creative journey inspired us to make positive changes in our daily lives.

Incorporating data visualization into family activities can be a fun and engaging way to introduce children to the basics of data literacy. Drawing Data with Kids is an example of such an activity that I have personally done with my own children. Through this talk, I hope to encourage other parents to explore creative ways to make their children data literate and empower the next generation with these essential skills.

This talk will explore the transformative power of generative AI in optimizing the data pipeline, highlighting key tools such as ChatGPT, Mid Journey, Stable Diffusion and Dalle 2. We'll discuss best practices and effective implementation strategies to revolutionize data collection, analysis and visualization in the era of artificial intelligence.

This talk highlights how to build sequential and diverging color schemes for data visualization with the Pantone 2023 Color of the Year, Viva Magenta.

In this talk, you’ll hear some tips and insights on teaching data literacy on social media using Kontinentalist’s Data Deep Dive series as a case study. We talk about the importance of making data approachable and accessible, and how we can empower readers to tell their own data stories.

Medical journal figures: Good, bad, ugly, and how designers can help

The figures in medical journals are due for an upgrade, IMHO. As a (real) scientist and (wannabe) data viz designer, I'd love to share some thoughts on the pros and cons of medical journal figures.

Dashboards are often chosen as the way to create a data driven culture, or as the ideal solution to make data available. But this idea comes from the habit of starting a data project from the available data, and not from the users and their community perspectives.

When people disagree on whether one chart design is better or worse than another, they often have quite different understandings of what "better" actually means when it comes to charts. This talk will provide a brief tour of the many different definitions of a “good chart” that people have, along with suggestions on how to think about this essential definition more productively and, ultimately, make better charts.

The physical gestures that a presenter makes when speaking about technical or abstract content can be critical to audience engagement and comprehension. Unfortunately, this communication channel is limited when presenting data to remote audiences via screen-sharing. In response, Matt will demonstrate a new way to present data powered by computer vision: interacting with visualization overlays by pointing at them in live webcam video.

My community participated in putting their own personal data point onto a scatterplot. This fun, interactive experience was motivated by using LEGOs as the building blocks of the data physicalization.

Land Music is a territory-specific data-driven performance created for Bergamo Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023. It consists in making all the bell towers present on the over 7,500km2 of territory simultaneously concerted; resulting in the spatially largest concert ever performed

This Lightning talk is a quick look at my Masters thesis project in Information Design completed in June 2022 at the Design Academy Eindhoven. It deals with the question of how information can or cannot help us deal with the current environmental crisis, and whether information design can change our mind about trees. :)

Teaching data and data visualization to undergraduate students is of growing importance to academic libraries. However, introducing data skills and data software to diverse groups and fields of study can be challenging. Melding the fields of data physicalization and critical making with traditional crafts like crochet, two academic librarians created a new workshop that provides a more welcoming and inclusive way to understand and experience data fundamentals. Leveraging the trend in crocheted or knitted temperature blankets, our small group of workshop participants brought data to life through crocheting a potholder that revealed temperature changes. This presentation discusses the planning process, our results and how the workshop was received, and our plans for future workshops.

This talk presents our experiences from the Economics Observatory, a collaborative research project in science communication that draws on the expertise of economists from a wide range of universities and research institutions across the UK and globally. It gathers and evaluates the best possible data and evidence on the challenges facing the economy and uses these as the basis for daily articles, visualizations briefings on the ECO website, social media channels, and via public facing events. We find that a blend of data and text is the best way for establishing this interface between experts and the public, rather than chart-heavy or text-only articles.

Data can be meaningfully visualized to guide decisionmakers toward supporting equitable programming as well as highlight equity in public-facing reporting. In this session, Kaitlyn, a visual analytics specialist, will take the lessons and experiences Center for Sustainable Energy has encountered to recommend ways to better visualize equity gaps for business analytics and program evaluation dashboards.

“Uncovering Inequalities: Reframing the Queer Flag to Tell Data-Driven Stories” discusses the Pudding Viz Cup 2022 winning project “Flags of Inequality”. It explores how the rainbow flag, one of the most recognizable symbols of the LGBTQ+ community, can be used as a tool for data storytelling.

Data visualization is one of the main forms of communication used to raise ecological awareness. But, in the urgent context of the Anthropocene, is it enough to keep up with the scale of the challenges we face? In this talk, I will delve into how dataviz can help us tackle large-scale and invisible phenomena like the climate crisis and reflect on ways of developing more informed and ecology-oriented approaches to visualizing our world.