Events - Past
VizUM 2018 was held on Thursday, November 15, 2018, 4:00-7:00 PM. The finalists’ projects from the inaugural VizUM Visualization Competition were presented. Read more “VizUM 2018 and Inaugural Visualization Competition”
News - Archived
The goal of the “Your City, Your Neighborhood, and You” Visualization for Civic Engagement Competition is to challenge designers, journalists, data scientists, statisticians, and professionals and scholars in any other field to design either: A data visualization essay, story, or infographic based on publicly available data about Miami, or an exploratory data visualization. Read more “VizUM Visualization Competition Deadline Extended to 7/23/2018”
Events - Past
The 4th annual VizUM theme is Creative Visualization, featuring distinguished guest speakers Giorgia Lupi and Angus Forbes speaking on Data Humanism, and on Creative and Critical Data Visualization (respectively). Join us on Thursday, November 16 from 4:00-7:00 PM at the Newman Alumni Center to be inspired. Read more “VizUM 4th Annual Symposium 11/16/2017”
Events - Past
The VizUM 3rd Annual Symposium was held on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146. Our guests speakers were Colin Ware and Martin Krzywinski. Read more “VizUM 2016 featured Colin Ware & Martin Krzywinski”
Events - Past
The Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (then the Center for Computational Science), the School of Communication and the College of Arts and Sciences held the second VizUM Annual Symposium on Thursday, November 12th, 2015, from 4:00-7:00 PM. The theme was “A Celebration of Infographics and Data Visualization”. The invited speakers Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattendberg, and Lynn Cherny were pioneers in the field of Visualization. Their vision drove the products and styles we see around us daily, and they continue to forge new ground in this domain. Read more “2nd VizUM Annual Symposium, Thursday 11/12/2015”
Lectures & Seminars - Archived
David McCandless is a best-selling London-based author, data-journalist and infographics designer, working across print, advertising, TV and web. His information design work has appeared in over 40 publications internationally including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit. David is the author of the books Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful. We invite you to come hear David speak on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:30-10:30 AM at the College of Engineering’s McArthur Annex Building Auditorium (2nd Floor—see campus map below or click here for directions) Room MEA 202. Read more “A Conversation with David McCandless 10/27/2015”
News - Archived
We’re excited to announce that construction on the new Visualization Laboratory is well underway at the IDSC location in the Arthur A. Ungar Building on the Coral Gables campus. Read more “Construction Begins on New Viz Lab”
News - Archived
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, the extraordinary Indiana University exhibition of 100 artistic big-data visualizations that debuted on the University of Miami campus in September, held its capstone event last week. But it signaled a beginning, not an end, launching the first annual VizUM symposium, a data visualization celebration event. Read more “VizUM Picks Up Where Places & Spaces Leaves Off”
News - Archived
The Places & Spaces Exhibit capstone event and the launch of the annual VizUM Symposium took place on December 11, 2014, 6:00–8:00 PM in the Stanley and Jewell Glasgow Hall, at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center of the University of Miami School of Architecture, 1223 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables. These events were open to the public. Read more “VizUM 1st Annual Symposium, Thursday 12/11/2014”