The Launch of a New Tool, the Trans News…
In an article titled “Visualizing Trans Coverage: A new tool, the Trans News Initiative, draws from data to reveal patterns and proportions,” Columbia Journalism Review author Carolina Abbott Galvão looked at The Trans News Initiative’s (TNI) “collection of 190,000 articles organized under 13 themes.” Read more “The Launch of a New Tool, the Trans News Initiative Sheds Light on Coverage”
VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography Explores Geospatial Visualization 11/10
VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography will deconstruct and reconstruct the maps we encounter in our daily lives to seek ways to understand geospatial visualizations as sophisticated storytelling devices that speak to the human experience. Read more “VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography Explores Geospatial Visualization 11/10”
VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography Explores Geospatial Visualization 11/10
VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography will deconstruct and reconstruct the maps we encounter in our daily lives to seek ways to understand geospatial visualizations as sophisticated storytelling devices that speak to the human experience. Read more “VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography Explores Geospatial Visualization 11/10”
EU High-Value Data Project Helps to Educate Readers on…
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”
Interactive Media Student Showcase Extravaganza 4/29
You are invited to the Department of Interactive Media End-of-Year Student Showcase Extravaganza, a celebration of the incredible work students have created this year. This year’s showcase features projects in: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Physical Computing, Games, Wearables, Data Visualization, Web & Mobile, UI/UX, and 2D & 3D Art. Read more “Interactive Media Student Showcase Extravaganza 4/29”
Did you miss VizUM 2024? Catch the Replay on…
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.
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Alberto Cairo Discusses the Present and Future of Visualization…
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”
Great Graphics and the Great Minds Behind Them
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”
Alberto Cairo LIVE at Frost Science Planetarium 1/17 on…
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.