Upcoming Data Visualization Conferences

Let’s take a look at what events are coming up! This is meant to be a living document, to be updated as new things arise. Is anything missing? No fret; toss it into this very short survey! (Last updated: 2/17/2020)

S-H-O-W

When: April 8-9, 2021
Where: Online & Utrecht, the Netherlands
Links: Website, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
Time Zones Targeted: ~Europe

“How can we help our audience to make more sense of data visualisations? How can we help to make it more understandable? One way is to work with rules. Rules about colour, axis, size, shapes, interactivity, etc. We can’t expect our audience to take the time to decode complex and beautiful visualisations, but we can design the conditions to aim for that. If we as practitioners use rules in a clear way, the reader can understand a data visualisation more intuitively. On the other hand, even with all the rules, every data visualisation is unique and different. The creativity is obviously in the rules. We can use the creativity to play around with and search for new and exiting ways of expression to connect with our audiences. At the second S-H-O-W conference in November 2020 we will examine, learn and discuss the rules. We look at how to make them and break them.”

Alright, that’s what we’ve got so far! If you hear about more, fill out this form and we’ll add to the list if it’s relevant.

Cheers! :)

Note: I realize that there are a lot of data science / analytics conferences out there that may be data-visualization tangential; however, if I started listing every data science conference in existence, this list would get VERY long very quickly. Therefore, I only included conferences with a clear data visualization focus.