Data Changes Everything: How Data Vis Design and Interface Design are Different

The 5th of our summer talks, by Jagoda Walny, Canada Energy Regulator.

Title: Data Changes Everything: How Data Visualization Design and Interface Design are Different

Join us at
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/d6f968c9fe8e4a1382b2d4fc456a813d

This talk will be 30min, followed by 30min for questions and discussion.

Tue, July 28th, 6:00 pm (GMT+1)

Abstract: It’s easy to assume that the tools and approaches used for general software design apply equally to data visualization design. But data visualization design and interface design are often deeply and fundamentally distinct from one another. We learned this the hard way when we turned our research lab into a collaborative data visualization design studio for a few years, creating public-facing visualizations with a large organization and a software development team. In this talk, I will highlight some challenges that our design team faced and reflect on the opportunities this poses to create new, powerful data visualization design tools and communication processes..

Bio: Jagoda spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Interactions Lab (University of Calgary, Canada) leading a data visualization design team and reflecting on plenty of design and process challenges along the way. She currently leads the Visual Data & Design group at the Canada Energy Regulator..

Web: http://research.jagoda.ca