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Visual Villainy: How to Undermine Humanity With Dataviz

Together, they are leading a transformative movement in data visualization, particularly focusing on social justice and ethical communication, with their presentation titled "Visual Villainy: How to Undermine Humanity With Dataviz"

## Accessibility: the key to unlock your best data visualization

Accessibility is the source of our most life- and society-changing products we use every day: keyboards, touch screens, virtual assistants, and more. Accessibility is often seen as a constraint, but if data visualization designers can tap into accessibility they’ll be tapping into one of the most creatively disruptive forces in the history of technology.

Making arguments with data visualization

Data visualization can be used as a powerful tool for persuasion. How's that done and what do we need to watch out for? The talk will share with the audience a few simple techniques I learned through work to achieve that.

Positive Disruption Panel: Data Physicalisation

Join us for an enlightening panel featuring three lightning talks that delve into the transformative power of data visualization in diverse contexts, followed by a moderated discussion and an audience Q&A session. Moderated by Jason Forrest

From Viz to Victory Lane: Building a Data Product From the Ground Up

At McLaren Racing, we are building intuitive, interactive data visualizations to help us make decisions at the race track faster and more effectively. This talk will discuss this iterative process of collaboration with our engineers, drivers, and team leaders, including the technical decision-making process and the lessons learned around the importance of stakeholder buy-in when introducing disruptive changes to established industry practices.

How to choose a chart type (it's trickier than you think)

When designing a data visualization, one of the trickiest—and yet most consequential—design choices is choosing which chart type to use. While less experienced chart designers tend to believe that this is a simple decision, more experienced chart creators know that it can be quite tricky, and may even believe that it’s a skill that can only be developed through years of experience. In this talk, educator and author Nick Desbarats shows examples of decision trees from his new book, Practical Charts, that allow chart creators to reliably make expert-level chart type choices.

Thinking with Data Visualizations, Fast and Slow

Meet Steven Franconeri, The founder of ExperCeption and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. He leads a cutting-edge research lab focusing on cognitive science of data visualization, science communication, and persuasive presentation of data-backed arguments. Steve is a leading teacher and speaker on data storytelling, dashboard design, and persuasive presentation.

Visualizing Climate Action: Designing Intuitive Dashboards for Decarbonization

This talk delves into the design and UX process behind creating complex yet intuitive data dashboards, using the example of NZero's decarbonization platform. Explore how data visualization can empower climate action and drive customer interaction in climate-tech, leading to informed decision-making and impactful outcomes.

“Britannica's Encyclopedia Infographica”: Lessons from designing over 200 infographics

Valentina D’Efilippo, designer and co-author of “Britannica’s Encyclopedia Infographica”, will take the audience on the journey of transforming the iconic Britannica Encyclopedia through infographic storytelling – outlining challenges, solutions, and valuable lessons. Attendees will leave with an appreciation of the complexities of researching, designing, and editing over 200 unique infographics, along with practical insights applicable to their own projects.

Running feminist data studios

Is there room for feminist data studios to effectively change our industry? Despite starting Odd Studio and Kontinentalist from opposite sides of the globe, Leticia and Pei Ying, a Latina and an Asian studio co-founders bring their perspectives, beliefs and attempt to answer that question.

Positive Disruption Panel: GenAI

Join us for an enlightening panel featuring three lightning talks at the intersection of AI, data, and design, followed by a moderated discussion and an audience Q&A session. Moderated by Amanda Makulec

Inclusive Segmentations: Bridging the Gap Without Bias

Say goodbye to large data sheets with a photo or icon of John Doe and Jane Smith. Personas are polarizing and can overemphasize physical traits over deep mental models that inform businesses on how to really connect with leads. This talk will reframe the persona narrative to focus on what really matters in strategic customer storytelling with custom crafted persona experiences.

Visualizing Health: Bridging the Gap Between Scientific and Mainstream Knowledge

This talk explores translating complex healthcare data into accessible infographics, balancing scientific accuracy with audience comprehension. It covers crafting visuals, adapting corporate branding, and infusing relatable metaphors for empathy and emotional appeal.

Exploring Transformation? You need a map!

Presenting the right metrics at the right time at the right level of granularity for the right audience is a nuanced endeavor. Which metrics and visuals lead to the outcomes you want versus useless – or even harmful – gamification? Through the lens of software development, we’ll explore how to choose visuals to positively disrupt behaviors, especially if you aren’t a developer yourself. Not just for the dev world, this is valuable to anyone looking to choose visuals that lead to better conversations with stakeholders and both reflect and drive transformation.

The Evolution of Journalism: Empowering Communities through Data and Storytelling

Journalist Maudlyne Ihejirika will share how community engagement and the art of storytelling disrupt and transform the way we perceive information.

Open Sonifications: Bringing Sound and Data to Everyone

In this talk, we share a manifesto for a new approach to sonification that centres community, real issues, and danceability. Attendees will learn DIY techniques for exploring objects and data through sound -- no special software or musical background required.

Visual Narratives: Sexual Stigma in Physician Notes from American Eugenics Records

This talk offers a unique approach to data visualization by integrating insights from natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze linguistic choices within doctor's notes justifying recommended sterilization procedures. By uncovering gender and sex biases embedded in these records and highlighting individual narratives alongside broader trends, the project aims to foster empathy, understanding, and awareness of historical injustices.

How I Built A Data Visualization Team From Scratch

Disruption is easy to talk about but true organizational change is elusive. What this talk will communicate is what I've learned through building a new data visualization team: Reimagining the way we conceptualize, scope, build and launch our data visualization projects will not be successful or joyful without considering the incentives and motivations of your team and going concentrically outwards from there, always socializing the vision, providing guidance and technical assistance, and being patient and empathetic.

Data Viz for All: Leveraging Social Media and Reachable Workshops for Increased Access

In this talk, I will share my experience mentoring diverse backgrounds and using #SabtuTableau, a free data storytelling workshop focused on Indonesian issues. Discover how participants gain valuable knowledge, utilizing X to share their locally-driven data stories and give a different perspective through Data Visualization.