Storytelling is the most powerful way
to put ideas into the world today.
Tapestry is an event designed to advance interactive online data storytelling. Tapestry brings different viewpoints together with the goal of generating a rich conversation about data storytelling.
This one-day, invitation-only conference includes keynotes, short stories, discussion, and a demo theater designed to provoke ideas and discussion across disciplines.
The fifth Tapestry event will be held at Casa Monica in St. Augustine, Florida. Erected in 1888, this majestic Moroccan-themed hotel is a short walk from Old City, St. Augustine’s historic district, near the Cathedral Basilica and a short ride from the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park.
St. Augustine is less than an hour’s drive from the Jacksonville International Airport and only 30 minutes from downtown Jacksonville, where NICAR 2017 will take place. Each attendee will be responsible for arranging their own transportation to the Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine however there will be transportation provided on the evening of Wednesday, March 1st from St. Augustine to downtown Jacksonville for guests attending NICAR.
We will provide additional information regarding transportation as the event draws closer.
At this event we will have three keynote speakers, one from each discipline that is advancing the thinking around data storytelling- design, academia, journalism.
Lena Groeger is a journalist/developer/designer at ProPublica, where she makes interactive graphics and other data-driven projects. She also teaches design and data visualization at The New School and CUNY. Before joining ProPublica in 2011, Groeger covered health and science at Scientific American and Wired magazine. She is particularly excited about the intersection of cognitive science and design, as well as creating graphics and news apps in the public interest.
Neil Halloran started his first web development company, Higher Media, Inc., from his college dorm room in 2001, and today the company has grown to provide web solutions to major brands across the country. Neil's greatest passion is to use documentary, data visualization, and interactive storytelling to raise public understanding of the most challenging issues of our day. Neil’s award-winning new media projects include OurBombs.com and AidsinAfrica.net. His current project, VisualBudget.org, is an online visualization that makes the federal budget transparent, exciting, engaging and easy for everybody to understand.
Dr. Michelle Borkin works on the development of novel visualization techniques and tools to enable new insights and discoveries in data. She works across disciplines to bring together computer scientists, doctors, and astronomers to collaborate on new analysis and visualization techniques, and cross-fertilize techniques across disciplines. Her research has resulted in the development of novel computer assisted diagnostics in cardiology, scalable visualization solutions for large network data sets, and novel astrophysical visualization tools and discoveries. Her main research interests include information and scientific visualization, hierarchical and multidimensional data representations, network visualization, visualization cognition, user interface design, human computer interaction (HCI), and evaluation methodologies.
There are options for attendees to present at Tapestry. The first option is to present a 10-15 minute short story regarding any aspect of data storytelling. The second option is to present a demo of your viz during the demo showcase portion of the event, and the third option is to display a poster, also during the demo showcase.
| Abstracts due | Selections by | |
|---|---|---|
| Short stories | 12/1/16 | 12/31/16 |
| Posters | 12/15/16 | 12/23/16 |
| Demos | 1/15/17 | 2/15/17 |
