News
Data. Although it is a short word, often dismissed as numbers or statistics, it follows us everywhere today. From the steps that we take, to our traffic patterns and driving speeds, to identifying our genomic sequence and even our daily purchasing habits. And more each day, governments, schools, and businesses are seeing the benefits of this information. Read more “Plotting the Future Through Data”
Events - Past
PyData Miami 2019 is a 3-day conference on tools and techniques for machine learning, data analysis, visualization, and large-scale data infrastructure. We are an accessible, community-driven conference with talks and tutorials for all skill levels: students, practitioners, and researchers. PyData focuses on open-source computational tools for the Python programming language (such as NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn), as well as implementation-agnostic techniques, and other high level numerical languages, such as R and Julia. Read more “PyData Miami Conference 1/9-11/2019”
Events - Past
On November 15th, 2018, the University of Miami hosted its fifth annual VizUM Symposium. This year’s event was coupled with its first ever Visualization Competition. Read more “VizUM 2018 Recap and Visualization Competition Results”
Awards & Honors
CCS Vizualization program director Alberto Cairo has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Majeri Award for Graphics Journalism from Ball State University’s Department of Journalism. Read more “Alberto Cairo receives Majeri Award for Graphics Journalism”
Events - Past
On March 2nd, 2018, the University of Miami hosted the first Data Intersections symposium. The goal of Data Intersections is to enable a conversation between professionals and scholars from domains that have been deeply transformed by the increasing availability of data and the digital tools used to manipulate it, such as data science, statistics, data journalism, the physical and biological sciences, and the digital humanities. Read more “Data Intersections Symposium 2018”
Events - Past
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, the University of Miami hosted the 4th annual VizUM Symposium. In celebration of visual representation, the Symposium explored the relationship between art, science, and data through two guest speakers, Angus Forbes and Giorgia Lupi. Read more “VizUM 2017 Examined the Impact of Creative Visualization”
News - Archived
Consumers flock to Google to learn about health conditions like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. In recent years, the search engine has been looking for ways to put its growing volume of health data to use. Google’s News Lab, which is designed to help journalists and researchers use Google tools for storytelling and understanding data, introduced a new tool this week specifically focused on health care and disease. Read more “Google is Putting its Massive Amount of Health and Disease Data to Use”
News - Archived
Google News Lab is inviting artists and designers to dig into its massive trove of data about what the world Googles. Data journalists work at the crossroads of reportage and visual creativity. They tell stories by shaping information like journalists do, but they communicate through visceral and compelling visuals. The same can be said of data artists, who emphasize the illustrative qualities of visualization over facts and numbers—but who communicate stories in much the same way. Read more “What Happens When Google Turns Artists Loose On Its Search Data”
Events - Past
The 2nd annual Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium has been canceled due to Hurricane Irma. At this time, the DH+DJ Committee is looking at other dates in 2018 or 2019. We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at the rescheduled event. Please stay tuned to our website for more information. Once new dates have been scheduled, we will notify you. Read more “2017 DH+DJ Symposium canceled due to Hurricane”
News - Archived
In the article “Some of the newest cookbooks look like comics. But does that work for readers?“ that appears in The Washington Post’s Food Section, July 11, 2017, author Charlotte Druckman quotes CCS Visualization Program Director Albert Cairo, PhD. Read more “Washington Post Quotes Alberto Cairo on Images”