This Fireside Chat will feature past winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards discussing their winning visualization, their process for creating the viz, and what it's like to be an award winner!
This Fireside Chat will feature past winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards discussing their winning visualization, their process for creating the viz, and what it's like to be an award winner!
Members can submit questions: https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/fireside-chat-questions
View it live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataVisualizationSociety
Jason Forrest: Publications Director and Nightingale Editor-in-Chief for the Data Visualization Society.
Mary Aviles: Publications Managing Editor for the Data Visualization Society.
Claire Santoro: Publications Content Editor for the Data Visualization Society.
Julie Brunet: Publications Creative Director for the Data Visualization Society.
Moderator: Jill Brown, Programs Director, Data Visualization Society
See here for full bios of all panelists.
Members can submit questions: https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/fireside-chat-questions
View it live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataVisualizationSociety
Robert Kosara - Former Lead Research Staff at Tableau Research
Luz Calvo - User Experience Researcher in the Scientific Visualization group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Silvia Romanelli - Italian data visualization designer based in France
Anxo Roibas - UK COVID-19 Dashboard user research Lead, UK Health Security Agency
Moderator: Erica Gunn, Education Director Data Visualization Society
Members can submit questions: https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/fireside-chat-questions
View it live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataVisualizationSociety
Jon Schwabish - Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, and founder of PolicyViz
Maxene Graze - Data Visualization Engineer, MURAL
Alan Wilson - Principal Designer, Adobe Experience Cloud
Moderator: Amy Cesal
View the conversation live on YouTube. The panelists will talk about but moving beyond color accessibility, and answer questions submitted by general members.
Frank Elavsky - Frank is a data experience engineer and designer interested in accessibility, motion and interaction design, and design systems. He is also the creator of Chartability
Léonie Watson - Léonie is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Advisory Board; co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group; and a member of the BIMA Inclusive Design Council.
Sarah L. Fossheim - Sarah is a multidisciplinary developer and designer, passionate about ethics and accessibility.
Øystein Moseng - Øystein has been developing software since his early childhood and has taken a great interest in data visualizations and accessibility in later years. He is currently Head of Accessibility at Highcharts, having joined the charting company in 2013.
Moderator: Amy Cesal - Amy is a co-founder of the Data Visualization Society and a current board member. She is passionate about trying to make everything, including charts, accessible.
Making sense of charts, graphs, and data points helps us navigate the world around us. During this Data Visualization Society Fireside Chat, learn from experts from around the world about building data literacy, whether it’s within an organization or a community. Our panelists will bring perspectives from the non-profit, academic, and private sectors, and those who join the event live can shape the conversation with your questions.
Sign up: https://excella.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jm4jQkjBSTmKCZ-NeTeRTg
Sarah Nell-Rodriquez, Tableau, Principal Enterprise Customer Success Manager
Mary Aviles, freelance multi-sector human experience strategist and researcher
Allen Hillery, Columbia University, Adjunct Faculty
Rama Raphalalani, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning Officer, Data Innovator
Amanda Makulec, MPH, Operations Director Data Visualization Society
Join us for our next Fireside Chat, about data art & creative coding. We will explore the definition of data art, the inspiration behind creative data projects, and even chat about happy accidents! There will be an initial discussion among the panelists then time for questions from those joining us live in Zoom using the Q&A box.
Panelists:
Eleanor Lutz - graphic designer specializing in data and science visualization
Shirley Wu - award-winning creative focused on data-driven art and visualizations
Kirell Benzi, Ph.D - researcher, communicates data science through art
Moderator: Julia Krolik - information designer, founder of Pixels and Plans & Art the Science
Join us for our next Fireside Chat, about typography for data visualization. We will talk about fonts, what makes a good title, how to use labels and more! There will be an initial discussion among the panelists, and then time for questions from those joining us live using the Zoom using the Q&A box.
Panelists:
Keir DuBois
Tiffany France
Richard Brath
Moderator: Neil Richards
Introduction: Kuhu Gupta
Join us for a chat about accessibility and data visualization on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Panelists:
Doug Schepers - Director at Fizz Studio
Melanie Mazanec - Engineer at Bloom government digital services
Dr. John Gardner - Founder of ViewPlus
Sarah Higley - Software Developer at Microsoft
Moderator: Amy Cesal
Join us for our next Fireside Chat where we will dive into the beautiful intersection of data visualization and sketching.
Panelists:
Rasagy Sharma, Principal Information Designer, Gramener
Katherine Haugh, Senior Advisor on Organizational Learning at the Global Knowledge Initiative
Duncan Geere, Freelance information designer
Moderator: Amy Cesal
