{"id":3307,"date":"2026-09-03T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:53:49","slug":"save-the-date-monday-11-16-for-vizum-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idsc.miami.edu\/magazine\/save-the-date-monday-11-16-for-vizum-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date Monday 11\/16 for VizUM 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Save the date Monday, November 16, 2026 for the 9th annual VizUM Symposium. VizUM is a free annual data visualization symposium 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.
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This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Monday, November 16, 2026 | 4:00-7:00 PM<\/h4>\n

Register Now<\/strong>\u00a0(free)<\/h3>\n

Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 |\u00a0Map + Directions<\/a><\/p>\n

Speakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Nigel<\/p>\n

Nigel Holmes<\/a><\/h4>\n

Graphic Designer, Author, Theorist
\nEXPLANATION GRAPHICS<\/small><\/p>\n

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\"Simon<\/p>\n

Simon Rogers<\/a><\/h4>\n

Data Editor, GOOGLE
\n<\/small>Co-Host, THE DATA JOURNALISM PODCAST
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Born in England, Nigel Holmes<\/strong> studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London<\/a> and then freelanced for magazines and newspapers for 12 years before coming to America in 1978 to work for\u00a0Time Magazine<\/a>. <\/em>He became graphics director and stayed there for 16 years. Since 1994 he has run his own business, Explanation Graphics<\/a>, explaining all sorts of things for a variety of clients, including Apple, CVS, The Smithsonian, and United Healthcare. He also does graphics and illustrations for publications such as The Atlantic, Harper\u2019s,<\/em> and The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Let'sHis latest book is Let’s get INFOGRAFIT<\/em>: A graphic look at exercise and health<\/a> was published in 2025 by CRC Press as part of the AK Peters Visualization series.<\/td>\n

Simon Rogers\u00a0<\/b>is an award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. Co-host of\u00a0The Data Journalism Podcast<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Alberto Cairo<\/a>\u00a0and author of \u2018Facts are Sacred<\/a>\u2018, published by Faber & Faber around the world. He has also written a\u00a0range of infographics for children books from Candlewick<\/a>. Data editor at Google, based in San Francisco, he is\u00a0director of the Sigma Data Journalism Awards<\/a>, taught Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, and has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>His latest book, What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind<\/a>, was published in 2026 by Penguin Random House.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Sponsors<\/h3>\n

VizUM is sponsored by the\u00a0Open Visualization Academy<\/strong><\/a>, the\u00a0John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, and the University of Miami\u00a0\u00a0School of Communication<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing<\/strong>\u00a0(IDSC).<\/p>\n

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\"Open<\/a><\/td>\n\"John<\/a><\/td>\n\"University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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