Free Webinar: "Same Data, Different Charts: How Visuals Shape Data Messages"

Hi folks, this is just a short message to let you know I am organizing a free webinar for this coming Monday, February 10, at 12 ET.

To sign up, follow the link here, and you’ll be redirected to the page you see below. Just enter your email in the email box on the right, and you’ll receive the necessary instructions.

At the time of writing, we already have 88 people signed up! Who knows… maybe we can get to 100!! This is a great opportunity to get a sense of my courses and teaching style. I really hope to see many of you there.

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I organized this webinar to give people a preview of the content in my Rhetorical Data Visualization course. The webinar focuses on a very relevant aspect of visualization rhetoric: how creating different visual representations for the same data can lead to different interpretations.

When we teach data visualization, we typically focus on what charts are appropriate for a given task. Still, we rarely focus on what are different ways to represent exactly the same information. But if you think about this, it is a crucial skill because if we can represent the same information differently, it is also possible that we may be able to send a completely different message with the same data. In other words, the way we visualize data is one of the “framing levers” we have when we produce new data visualizations.

Take a look at the image below:

This is an illustrative example I created a while back. Even with something so simple, there are so many possible visual representations - and this only scratches the surface!

If you want to know more, sign up for the webinar. I am looking forward to seeing many of you there!