The idea
Designing a meaningful visualization is more than just producing cute graphs. It’s an exercise of creativity and innovation, critical thinking, and sharp skills of analytical and visual tool manipulation. Every contribution displayed is the product of asking interesting questions, exploring hypotheses, trying different designs, thinking about data quality, structure, relations, and messages. The design thinking behind these creations is what makes data relevant for social, political, economic, and cultural problems. Understanding and communicating data stories is something we do anyway - in publications, presentations, and in the classroom. So, while doing it, why not benefit from appreciation, learning, and a dynamic support community?
Each edition of Data Stories reflects its growth. As news about the exhibition continued to spread and the concept matured, the event now features both print and interactive visualizations, and an active platform for the public community of data storytellers to: share a wide range of fresh content on latest projects and contemporary techniques; discuss about practical and theoretical key issues, and learn about collections of valuable references and resources on data visualization and social scientific practices from peers and practitioners.
Each edition of Data Stories reflects its growth. As news about the exhibition continued to spread and the concept matured, the event now features both print and interactive visualizations, and an active platform for the public community of data storytellers to: share a wide range of fresh content on latest projects and contemporary techniques; discuss about practical and theoretical key issues, and learn about collections of valuable references and resources on data visualization and social scientific practices from peers and practitioners.
The Goal
The goal of the project is to bring together different interests and subjects of analysis into a coherent dialogue over a shared necessity and passion – data visualization. The main aim of the event is to make visible the informal ties among students, faculty, and business representatives interested in data visualization, as well as to encourage the formation of future collaborations on similar and complementary research interests.
Data Stories is the perfect venue to share your creations, get to know people who work on similar and complementary research interests, and learn about new experiences and tools directly from the other participants.
Data Stories is the perfect venue to share your creations, get to know people who work on similar and complementary research interests, and learn about new experiences and tools directly from the other participants.
Who's In
Masters, PhD students and professors of all social scientific disciplines, from philosophy to cognitive scince, and from public policy to business; data designers and architects, knowledge managers, data journalists or visualization enthusiasts of all backgrounds and types.
The Team
The Data Stories Team ensures that each edition is better and more interesting than the one before. With fruitful experience from previous years, Silvia, Olga, Orsi, Srebrenka, Kinga, David, Milan, and Balazs organize a more popular and ambitious fourth edition of the exhibition.
The event is supported by the Center for Network Science and Central European University, and funded by ACRO.
The event is supported by the Center for Network Science and Central European University, and funded by ACRO.