NEW VENUE ADDRESS

Friday’s workshop venue address has been changed to

CIC Cambridge, 101 Main St. 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA

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A hands-on workshop synthesizing data visualization and user experience.

Learn how to make your data intuitive, actionable and visually engaging!

Sponsored by
GroupVisual.io logo

UI/UX and data visualization design services company based in Boston, MA.

A hands-on workshop synthesizing data visualization and user experience.

Learn how to make your data intuitive, actionable and visually engaging!

Sponsored by
GroupVisual.io logo

UI/UX and data visualization design services company based in Cambridge, MA.

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Upcoming Meetup

“Aesthetics in Visualization”

Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Guest speaker: Irene Delatorre

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The Workshop

Come learn how to make your data actionable! DVUX Workshop teaches participants disciplined approaches to data visualization (DV) and dependable methods of user experience design (UX). The wealth of data available offers unprecedented opportunities for discovery and insight. This full-day workshop will help you develop the most effective data experiences possible for your users.

The Framework

How we see and how we understand graphical information described in 7 principles.

The Approach

A program combining theory, techniques, and exercises to support user-oriented goals.

What We Cover

Many organizations building digital products struggle to create effective user-experiences of data. It is not easy to create user interfaces and visualizations that are insightful and intuitive, and many teams want to improve their skills in this area. By going beyond traditional methods of data visualization design, DVUX helps designers, developers, product owners and data scientists unlock the human side of data.

Humans make sense of visual information by perceiving patterns, and we are all highly attuned to pattern detection. To visualize data effectively, it is necessary to encode information in a form that a user, or viewer, can decode to see useful patterns and gain insights. This section covers what makes visualizations effective, or not.

Participants learn various techniques for encoding information, with a particular focus on how to use color effectively.

Topics:

  • Pattern
  • Color
  • Representation

People find data actionable when it helps them solve problems, make decisions and accomplish occasionally complex tasks. Producing an effective data experience requires an understanding of the users you are trying to serve with your product, and what you are hoping to help them accomplish.

Historically, people have gained insights through narrative and storytelling, often using metaphor to compare new information to what they already know. DVUX looks closely at the fundamentals of human intelligence and reasoning, and what contemporary neuroscience can tell us about how to organize information for effective cognition.

Participants will learn useful techniques to discover and document what their users are trying to accomplish with their product. Using principles of metaphor, context, and narrative, participants will learn how to link visualizations to insights, and how data displays can be designed to answer user questions. Finally, participants will learn how to assemble user-experiences that are engaging and motivating for their users.

Topics:

  • Metaphor
  • Context
  • Narrative
  • Understanding user needs
  • The grammar of graphics
  • Engagement
  • Assessing good (and bad) visualizations
  • Developing reverse question boards
  • Selecting visualizations to generate insights
  • Encoding a visualization
  • Creating data experiences

Who Should Attend?

  • Product Owners/Managers
  • Agile Scrum Masters
  • Business Analysts
  • VPs of Product
  • VPs of Engineering
  • Data Analysts
  • Engineers
  • Data Scientists
  • Developers
  • UX/UI Designers
  • Visual Designers
  • Data Visualization Designers
  • Data Visualization Developers
  • Chief Experience Officers
  • Chief Innovation Officers
  • Chief Technology Officers

The Presenters

Mark Schindler of GroupVisual.io

Mark Schindler

Mark is the co-founder and Managing Director of GroupVisual.io. For over 15 years, he has designed analytics applications, apps and data visualizations for clients like Johnson & Johnson, GE and Eli Lilly.

Bang Wong of Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Bang Wong

Bang is the creative director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the founding author of the ‘Points of View’ articles on data visualization published by Nature Methods.

Agenda

Overview

30 min.

How we see

by Bang Wong

Pattern, Color & Representation

30 min.

Exercise 1

How we see

20 min.

Quick break

10 min.

How we understand

by Mark Schindler

Metaphor, Context, Narrative & Engagement

30 min.

Exercise 2

DVUX

90 min.

Summary

15 min.

What People Say

You made it look fun, interesting and made me want to investigate further in this area.

2017 Barcelona Workshop attendee

Thanks for the workshop – this was my favorite presentation at ODSC this year. I thought both presenters were extremely knowledgeable in their fields and presented material very effectively.

ODSC 2017 attendee

I appreciated the group exercises. It was a networking opportunity I wouldn’t otherwise have had.

ODSC 2018 attendee

I want to bring this back to my team so I can help all of us grow from this experience.

ODSC 2017 attendee

Just love the combination of data vis with UX. I think you guys are onto a winner!

Sydney workshop attendee

This is something I would like our entire company to attend. The idea of creating visually impactful data is not something people are explicitly born with, but it’s something nearly every professional needs (sales to engineering to executive leadership).

ODSC 2018 attendee

Thank you so very much for the wonderful and enlightening presentation and workshop during the ODSC last week. I really learned a lot which I plan to put into use.

ODSC 2017 attendee

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