The VizUM 3rd Annual Symposium was held on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146. Our guests speakers were Colin Ware and Martin Krzywinski. Read more “VizUM 2016 featured Colin Ware & Martin Krzywinski”
Computational science and journalism students dive deep into data and discover new ways to visually represent their findings to non-scientific audiences. If you’ve ever spent time analyzing financial reports at a corporate meeting, or analyzing reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, you likely enjoy the process more when the data is accompanied by interactive graphics to illuminate key findings. Yet who exactly conceives and creates all of the detailed charts, maps, and info-graphics that appear regularly in newspapers to break down complex topics such as The New York Times report on refugee distribution across Europe? Or websites that provide real-time data about police shootings across the USA such as The Counted, or global warming facts via an animated timeline in the Bloomberg Business report What’s Really Warming the World? Read more “Viz UM: Drawing Out Big Data for the Public Good”
David McCandless is a best-selling London-based author, data-journalist and infographics designer, working across print, advertising, TV and web. His information design work has appeared in over 40 publications internationally including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit. David is the author of the books Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful. We invite you to come hear David speak on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:30-10:30 AM at the College of Engineering’s McArthur Annex Building Auditorium (2nd Floor—see campus map below or click here for directions) Room MEA 202. Read more “A Conversation with David McCandless 10/27/2015”
Join us for a networking event with the speakers from our 2nd VizUM Annual Symposium Fernanda Viegas PhD and Martin Wattenberg PhD of Google’s “Big Picture” data visualization group, plus UM faculty in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Successful women from different backgrounds will be a part of this event, and can questions about your career goals. Read more “Women in Tech Careers Mentoring Lunch 11/12/2015”
Design for Visualization Workshop: A Workshop on Charts, Maps, Infographics, and Scientific Posters. This class covers the main principles of visualization for science communication. No previous experience is required. Read more “Design for Visualization Workshop 2/18/2015”
Tableau has rapidly become one of the most popular data visualization tools on the market. The School of Communication and IDSC are hosting two duplicate workshops featuring Tableau. Both sessions will be held on Wednesday, February 11, 2015. If you wish to learn how to use it, sign up for one of the sessions offered below. This workshop is open to UM faculty, staff, and students. No previous experience using Tableau is required. Read more “Tableau Workshop, Wednesday 2/11/2015”
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, the extraordinary Indiana University exhibition of 100 artistic big-data visualizations that debuted on the University of Miami campus in September, held its capstone event last week. But it signaled a beginning, not an end, launching the first annual VizUM symposium, a data visualization celebration event. Read more “VizUM Picks Up Where Places & Spaces Leaves Off”
The Places & Spaces Exhibit capstone event and the launch of the annual VizUM Symposium took place on December 11, 2014, 6:00–8:00 PM in the Stanley and Jewell Glasgow Hall, at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center of the University of Miami School of Architecture, 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables. These events were open to the public. Read more “VizUM 1st Annual Symposium, Thursday 12/11/2014”
As part of the Places & Spaces Exhibit, IDSC presents: Ruth West in “Data Remixed: Have we all become information DJs?”
Read more “Places & Spaces: Data Remixed, Thursday 11/13/2014”
Explore the Lowe Art Museum’s exhibitions, Art in Real Life: Traditional African Art from the Lowe Art Museum and Transformative Visions: Works by Haitian Artists from the Permanent Collection, in the Lowe galleries, and the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit at the Richter Library and Glasgow Hall, School of Architecture. Read more “Places & Spaces Family Day, Sunday 11/9/2014”