Authoritarian movements are on the rise worldwide. This has led to the degradation or outright destruction of trustworthy data, and to increasingly hostile environments where attacks on knowledge-creation and -dissemination professions and institutions—journalism and academia included—are becoming everyday news. Read more “Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12”
Visualization
All countries within the European Union (EU) are required to generate special “high-value data sets” and to make them publicly available under the official portal for European data: data.europa.eu. These data sets include things like level of risk, such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, etc. Read more “EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on the Power of Visualization”
IDSC Fellows
On Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 3:00-5:00 PM, an audience gathered via Zoom and in person at the Richter Library 3rd floor conference room to hear the 2024-2025 IDSC Fellows give their final research project presentations. Did you miss it? Catch the replay on YouTube. Read more “Catch the Replay: 2024-2025 IDSC Fellows’ Final Research Project Presentations”
Visualization
All countries within the European Union (EU) are required to generate special “high-value data sets” and to make them publicly available under the official portal for European data: data.europa.eu. These data sets include things like level of risk, such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, etc. Read more “EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on the Power of Visualization”
Visualization
VizUM 2024: Beyond Data Visualization was held on Monday afternoon, November 11 (4:00-7:00 PM), at the Newman Alumni Center. The guest speakers were: Santiago Ortiz, Rahul Bhargava, and Lauren F. Klein who spoke on new or more inclusive ways of looking at or understanding visualization. This event was free and open to the public.
Read more “Did you miss VizUM 2024? Catch the Replay on YouTube”
Publications
Alberto Cairo recently appeared on The PolicyBiz Podcast and shared that talking to Jon Schwabish is always a pleasure. Jon, he says, is one of the most active and knowledgeable people in the visualization world, author of a few really good books—Alberto’s favorite is Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks, and, Alberto added, Jon is a great popularizer of their craft. Read more “Alberto Cairo Discusses the Present and Future of Visualization with Jon Schwabish”
Visualization
IDSC Visualization Director Alberto Cairo, PhD, was recently interviewed for the Royal Statistical Society magazine “Significance” about his new book and why bravery, reason, and anarchy are intrinsic to all the best data visualization. Read more “Great Graphics and the Great Minds Behind Them”
Lectures & Seminars
Data visualization—the use of charts and maps to display numbers—is all around us. Learning to be a savvy data “consumer” is an art. The good news is that anyone and everyone can learn! It’s an important skill: Data visualizations can convey important trends and findings; they can also be manipulated to obscure the true meaning of data as well.
Data Science
The Super Data Science PODCAST ep. 741 features IDSC Visualization Director Alberto Cairo. Listen on soundcloud.com as Dr. Cairo guides us beyond numerical figures, exploring the art of weaving compelling narratives through data. Read more “Super Data Science Podcast: “How to Visualize Data Effectively with Prof. Alberto Cairo””
IDSC Fellows
On Thursday, April 27, 2023, from 3:00-4:30 PM, an audience gathered via Zoom and in person at the Richter Library 3rd floor conference room to hear the 2022-2023 IDSC Fellows give their final research project presentations. A Biomedical Engineering student (Jeffery Serville), Civil Engineering student (Sadegh Tale Masoule), and two Marine Science students (one graduate—Kelly Soluri and one undergraduate—Shara Sookhoo) thanked their mentors, supporters, and collaborating researchers. We invite you to watch the full session on YouTube. Here are some takeaways: Read more “Catch the Replay: 2022-2023 IDSC Fellows’ Final Project Presentations”