Data, Designed
Transform your data visualization skills in this two-day workshop. Engage in hands-on activities to enhance creativity and create impactful visualizations.
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Course Description
The Data, Designed Workshop is a two-day intensive hands-on workshop designed for people and teams who want to develop their creative process to create better, more effective data visualizations.
- Learn innovative visualization techniques to transform raw data into impactful visual representations, guided by leaders in data science and design.
- Acquire core skills to conceptualize, plan, and develop effective data visualization products.
- Explore best practices to increase clarity and impact, exchanging ideas on message effectiveness and visualization design.
- Step away from keyboards and engage hands-on with basic drawing materials, diving into the science and design process behind data visualization.
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Course Prerequisites
This course is for anyone interested in data visualization and who wants to better understand the general design process regardless of their data analysis or software skills, including:
- People working with and analyzing data including government analysts, scholars, and researchers are interested in improving how they communicate their work.
- Communication designers and other creatives looking to expand their communication design skillset.
- Publishers and content creators who want to explore visual approaches to communicating their company’s message.
What You Will Learn
Data visualization—the study of the visual representation of data—plays a crucial role in the work of researchers and analysts. Organizations tasked with producing, releasing, and analyzing large amounts of data can more effectively analyze and communicate their work by understanding how to better visualize their data. Often, however, visualizing research results is an after-thought, secondary to the analysis, which ultimately limits the effective relay of information.
Bring your data to life using innovative visualization techniques in this workshop unlike any other, and learn from world leaders that come from two sides of data visualization: data science and design. Explore styles, techniques, and best practices to create meaningful and beautiful visualizations.
As the amount and speed of data grows at ever-increasing rates, being able to visualize and communicate data and data analysis has become more and more important. Organizations that are tasked with producing, releasing, and analyzing large amounts of data can more effectively do so by understanding how to visualize their data. In this workshop, you will learn the important underpinnings of the science and design process behind data visualization and how to effectively communicate your work.
This workshop will provide you with the core skills needed to conceptualize, plan, and develop data visualization products. Taught by world-renowned leaders in the field—Stefanie Posavec and Jonathan Schwabish—this workshop will inspire you to push beyond your own limits so you can create great, effective visualizations. Step away from your keyboard and enjoy some fresh space for your hands and mind: the entire workshop will be taught using nothing more than basic drawing materials and office supplies.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the following topics:
- Be familiar with different kinds of data visualizations.
- Identify the different forms and functions of visualizations.
- Learn, and exchange ideas about, visualization best practices.
- Learn how to increase message clarity and impact.
- Learn the basic data analysis skills one needs as a data visualizer.
- Understand the data visualization design process.
- Explore how to create their own custom data visualization system.
- Have a starting point for applying data visualization in their own work.
Instructors
Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author focused on creating playful, accessible, human-scaled approaches to communicating with data. Her work has been exhibited at major galleries including the V&A, the Design Museum (Designs of the Year 2016), Somerset House, the Wellcome Collection, Bletchley Park (all UK), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and MoMA (New York), where her work is also in the permanent collection. Recently she undertook the book design and art direction of chart creation for the activist Greta Thunberg’s much-lauded The Climate Book. Her latest illustrated book (I am a book. I am a portal to the universe), co-authored with Miriam Quick) has received multiple accolades, including winning the UK Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2021. She has also co-authored two books that emphasize a handmade, personal approach to data: Dear Data and the journal Observe, Collect, Draw!
Jonathan Schwabish is a PhD economist who is passionate about helping people working with data improve the way they communicate their work to a wider audience. Founder of the data visualization and presentation skills firm, PolicyViz, and a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC, Schwabish helps nonprofits, research institutions, and governments at all levels improve how they communicate their work and findings to their partners, constituents, and citizens. Dr. Schwabish is considered a leader in the data visualization field and is a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in research. He has written four books on the various aspects of how to best visualize data including technical aspects of creation, design best practices, and how to communicate data analysis and research in more accessible ways.