Save the Date 11/11/24 for the return of the annual VizUM Symposium!
Save the Date 11/11/24 for the return of the annual VizUM Symposium!
November 11 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeVizUM is back! with ViZUM 2024: Beyond Data Visualization. Join us on Monday afternoon, November 11, 2024 (4:00-7:00 PM), at the Newman Alumni Center as we welcome Lauren F. Klein, Rahul Bhargava, and Santiago Ortiz for lectures on new or more inclusive ways of looking at or understanding visualization. This event is free and open to the public.
Register Now (free)Launched in 2014, VizUM is a free annual data visualization symposium held featuring speakers who are pioneers in the field, whose vision drive products and styles we see around us daily, and who forge new ground in this domain. VizUM is sponsored by IDSC, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the UM College of Arts & Sciences, and the UM School of Communication Center for Communication, Culture and Change. AGENDA LOCATION Parking Information forthcoming . . .
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Santiago Ortiz | Moebio LabsSantiago creates digital experiences that help people solve complex problems with data. He explores synergies between human and algorithmic intelligences. He develops interfaces that allow for exploration, combination, deep understanding, and decision making based on large, diverse and dynamic datasets. He has experience as a teacher, digital media artist, interactive data visualization researcher, data scientist, product leader and entrepreneur. |
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Rahul Bhargava | Northeastern UniversityRahul Bhargava is an educator, researcher, and designer who builds collaborative projects to interrogate our datafied society with a focus on rethinking participation and power in data processes. His innovative approaches to data in community settings include award-winning data murals, data sculptures, interactive data exhibits, and data theatre. Rahul has created big data research tools to investigate media attention, built AI-based tools that support activists monitoring news for human rights violations, designed hands-on interactive museum exhibits that delight learners of all ages, and has run over 100 workshops to build data culture in newsrooms, non-profits, and libraries. |
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He has collaborated with groups ranging from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil to the World Food Program. Rahul’s publishes regularly in academic journals on data literacy, technology, and civic technology; his work has been shown at the Boston Museum of Science, Eyebeam in New York City, and the Fuller Craft Museum. Rahul is currently an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Art + Design at Northeastern University, where he directs the Data Culture Group. His first book, “Community Data: Creative Approaches to Empowering People with Information”, is coming this fall from Oxford University Press. TALK
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Lauren F. Klein | Emory UniversityLauren is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the Departments of Quantitative Theory and Methods and English at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab and serves as PI of the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Before arriving at Emory, Lauren taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She received her PhD in English and American Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, and her AB in Literature (English and French) from Harvard University. Lauren works at the intersection of data science, AI, and the humanities, with an emphasis on questions of gender and race. She is the author of several books, including Data Feminism (MIT Press 2020, coauthor Catherine D’Ignazio), which was named a “Must-Read Book for Spring 2020” by WIRED Magazine; and An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), which shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people, from the nation’s first presidents to their enslaved chefs, who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States. |
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Her next major project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, coauthored with members of her research group, will be published in print and online by the MIT Press in 2024. With Matthew K. Gold, Lauren edits Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press), a hybrid print/digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. The most recent book in this series is Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019.
In previous incarnations, Lauren has worked as a web developer, educational technology consultant, music producer, and bike messenger. She says she has not, however, appeared on Law & Order, designed customized silver jewelry, or performed award-winning gymnastics routines. You can view her official bio here. TALK
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