Data Viz Today

In this episode, we explore how to practice openness through a fun activity that combines serendipity and structure. London City Hall's Data Visualization and Information Design Lead, Mike Brondbjerg, shares how he creates beautiful pieces of art dictated by the roll of a dice, and how these serendipitous experiments led him to create an incredible 3D flower project with census data! Let's go…

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What's it mean to X-ray a dataviz? This is my new method to make sure I learn from my dataviz inspiration and organize it in a way that helps me use it later. In this episode, I'll share what it is and how you can X-ray dataviz too. Let's go!

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We know that we're supposed to gather inspiration, but then what? Gabrielle Mérite, a senior data visualization designer at Pentagram, shares what to do with your inspiration to put it to work for you!

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Why are habits/rituals important to your creative practice and what are some examples? Duncan Geere, Will Chase, and I share what's been most impactful to our dataviz practice!

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RJ Andrew's creative rituals infographic: https://infowetrust.com/project/routines

How do you approach creativity for personal projects vs business intelligence? That's our big creativity question today for Neil Richards.

Neil Richards is the author of the new book Questions in Dataviz, Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at JLL, and four-time Tableau Visionary.

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We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Manuel Canales, the graphics assignment editor at the Washington Post and previously the senior graphics editor at National Geographic, gets the most out of his creativity. How he approaches the pressure of a new project has changed the way I work! Let's go…

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Save your seat in the virtual workshop! (50% off promo code expires Sept 15)

September 22, 2022 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Increase your work's memorability and clarity by learning how to incorporate visual metaphors into your information communication!

Agenda:

• Presentation to understand what visual metaphor is, its benefits, when it's effective, and my process for creating them + lots of examples (30 min)
• Live brainstorming where I apply my process to an attendee's project. Watch me work or bring your own project to work through the prompts in real-time (30 min)
• Q&A to ask any question you have about the process and get feedback on your ideas (30 min)
• Unlimited email follow-up for 1-week after the workshop to ask any lingering questions or get individualized feedback on your ideas
• Recording + printable worksheet will be sent out afterward!

Who's this workshop for?

Anyone who communicates information—analyst, journalist, designer. You don't need to know a specific software, tool, or have drawing skills! Seats are limited.

Questions?

Email me: [email protected]

We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Marcelo Duhalde, the Associate Creative Director at the South China Morning Post, approaches creativity. We dive into how he defines creativity, what his process is like, what kills his creativity, and more!

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We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! Let's hear how Duncan Geere approaches creativity. We dive into how he defines creativity, how he gets the most out of his creativity, and more!

Duncan Geere is an information designer living in Sweden who works with graphics, words, and sound. He's one-half of the loud numbers, data sonification podcast and studio. And one-quarter of the Elevate data viz learning community. Duncan is always surprising me with his creative data sonification experiments, and he's also a really deep thinker. So I knew he'd have some interesting answers to my questions about creativity and he did not disappoint!

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We're exploring creativity in information design from the perspective of amazingly creative people in the field! If it's not a magical process, then what is it? Let's hear how Mesa Schumacher approaches creativity.

Mesa Schumacher is a science artist currently living in Fiji who specializes in communicating complex ideas through illustration, infographics, and animation. Mesa's work can be found in National Geographic and Scientific American, on signage at the National Zoo, in academia, and on giant puzzles!

We dive into how she defines creativity, what her routines are, what kills her creativity, how she presents creative ideas to clients…and more!

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Volunteer to be a Beta reader for my creativity book!