Event Category: Lecture

The visual query is a basic component of all analytic seeing and understanding visual queries is an essential part of the design of information visualizations.  Simply put, a visual query is a process whereby a problem is addressed through a pattern search. It is an analytic visual act of seeing. For example, the visual queries […]

Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication, will lecture on many key issues facing journalists, researchers and designers in conveying clear, compelling and accurate data in a visual format. “Widely acknowledged as journalism’s preeminent data viz wiz, Alberto Cairo is one of journalism’s preeminent data scholars. As newsrooms rush […]

Big Data will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into to tools that generate policy change! The Civic Data Design Lab has develops tools, visualizations, and analysis which helps to facilitate policy change. This talk calls everyone to act on the lab’s motto of  Build It, Hack It, Share it by demonstrating projects […]

What would a feminist approach to data science and visualization look like? Drawing on feminist approaches in Science & Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Humanities and Critical Cartography, I will outline six preliminary principles, along with many examples, for what a feminist approach to data analysis and visualization can look like that were co-designed with […]

Data visualization is making strides in delivering new tools, techniques, and systems to analysts engaged in data analysis and communication. But providing more options leads to a paradox of choice- how do creators of data visualizations navigate the tradeoffs between available design and techniques? One promising approach towards addressing this growing problem is to quantify […]