On Wednesday 4th December I will be hosting a live webinar featuring a panel of brilliant guests discussing ‘The State of Data Viz’. This event is will run for around 90 minutes and will be open to a live audience. The webinar will be recorded then carved-up and published as two separate audio and video episodes of my Explore Explain series.
This webinar will be open to join from 9am (GMT) with the conversation commencing about 5 minutes later, to give time for all the panellists to get in place as well as the audience to join. I will be hosting the session and my colleague Obinna Iwuji will be assisting with the technical delivery and facilitating audience involvement.
As there are attendance limits on this Zoom webinar, to attend please visit this Eventbrite page to register for free.
The panellists have been hand-picked to offer their valuable insights about the state of the data visualisation field. This will look at things as they are now, how we got here over the recent era of this field and where its possibly heading. Collectively they cover the full spectrum of professional participation: design practice, academia and education, professional services, journalism, book authoring, tool vendor, community leadership:
- Evelina Parrou, Founder & Creative Director at Parabole Studio
- Rasagy Sharma, Senior Design Manager for DataLabs at Capital One
- Joe Sharpe, Co-Founder of Applied Works
- Juuso Koponen, Co-Founder of Koponen+Hildén
- Lisa Charlotte Muth, Data Vis Writer at Datawrapper
The webinar is intended to be run for 90 minutes but space has been accommodated for a slight run-over, as you’ll see in the timings listed on the banner which also include the times across a sample few timezones. For people based in North/South America or in the far East/Australasia, you may not be awake for this live session but you’ll have access to view or listen to the recording soon after. I’m looking to split out the full duration in to 2 x ~45 minute episodes with episode covering three distinct topics of conversation.
There is more to do to finalise these distinct topics but the initial outline of possible themes of conversation may include:
- Practice: Data vis methods or technique trends, discourse
- Professions: Freelancing/studios, organisations, journalism
- Tech: Tools and data vis technological developments
- Academia: Research, education, knowledge transfer
- Community: Membership, diversity, leadership, geographic representation
- Resources: Books, events, websites, platforms
Against each topic, we’ll be exploring aspects such as:
- What’s good or what’s got better?
- What’s bad or what’s got worse?
- What are we hopeful about?
- What are we concerned about?
- What are the risks and opportunities for this field to flourish?
The audience will be welcome to constructively participate alongside the discussion by commenting, raising questions and responding to questions about the topics being explored.