Agenda

Event Schedule

• 6:00p

  Tuesday Evening Welcome Reception

  There will be a welcome reception starting at 6 pm on Tuesday, February 26

• 8:30a

  Morning Welcome

• 

  Jonathan Corum

  Graphics Editor,
  The New York Times

  8:45a

  Keynote

  Jonathan Corum

  Graphics Editor, The New York Times

  Jonathan Corum is the science graphics editor at The New York Times. His print graphics have won 15 awards from the Society for News Design and 8 medals from the international Malofiej competition. In 2009 the Times graphics desk received a National Design Award for communication design.
  
  He is also the founder of 13pt, a design studio that strives for the clear, simple presentation of data-rich information. He graduated from Yale College with a degree in Art and East Asian Studies

• 9:45a

  Break

• 

  Pat Hanrahan

  Professor,
  Stanford University

  10:15a

  Short Stories

  Pat Hanrahan

  CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and Chief Scientist & Co-founder of Tableau Software

  
  

  "Showing is Not Explaining"

  Pat Hanrahan is Tableau Software's Chief Scientist. He is also the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches computer graphics. His current research involves visualization, image synthesis, and graphics systems and architectures. Before joining Stanford he was a faculty member at Princeton.
  
  Pat has also worked at Pixar where he developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan Interface - a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high quality rendering programs. Pat has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award, and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  

  Nigel Holmes

  Founder of Explanation Graphics

  Nigel Holmes

  Founder of Explanation Graphics

  
  

  "Why 29 is such a stunning number"

  Leader in the field of information graphics, Lecturer, and founder of Explanation Graphics Nigel Holmes is one of the pioneers in the field of information design. He has authored several books, including Wordless Diagrams and Nigel Holmes on Information Design. He spent 16 years at Time Magazine and has also been published in the Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The New Yorker, Harpers’ and New Scientist.
  
  He founded Explanation Graphics where he has worked with clients such as Apple, GM, IBM and Nike among many others. Nigel is an in-demand lecturer and teacher, has spoken at TED, and always has something thought-provoking to say. He has an M.A. degree in illustration from the Royal College of Art, London.

  

  Cheryl Phillips

  Data Enterprise Editor for The Seattle Times

  Cheryl Phillips

  Enterprise Editor for The Seattle Times

  
  

  "Choosing the right visual story"

  Cheryl Phillips is the Data Enterprise Editor for The Seattle Times and a member and former board president with Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national journalism training organization. Phillips coordinates data-related enterprise journalism across the Seattle Times newsroom. She has been involved in a number of award-winning stories that made compelling use of data visualizations. One was The Recession’s Toll graphic story about the impact of the economy on Washington residents and which received the national 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Informational Graphics award, Society of Professional Journalists. Another was an investigation into the myth-busting reasons behind the foreclosure crisis, “Rescue From Foreclosure? Frustration, Anger Grow.” The joint project with The Seattle Times and ProPublica received a Gannett Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism.
  
  She also was the sole journalist in the newsroom in 2009 when a gunman shot and killed four area police officers in a coffee shop. The newspaper’s staff received a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage. Phillips also worked as deputy investigations editor and a reporter on the investigations team and has twice been a member of reporting teams that were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize. Previously, she has worked at USA Today and newspapers in Michigan, Montana and Texas.

  

  Hannah Fairfield

  Data Enterprise Editor for The Seattle Times

  Hannah Fairfield

  Graphics Director at The New York Times

  
  

  "The art of honest theft: evolution of a connected scatterplot"

  Hannah Fairfield joined the graphic team at The New York Times in 2000, was the graphics director at The Washington Post for two years, and returned to the Times in 2012. With her colleagues at the Times, she won the 2009 National Design Award for communication design. She received two master's degrees from Columbia University and taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for 6 years. She grew up in Alaska, spent most of her adult life in New York, and now resides near Washington, D.C.

  

  Bryan Connor

  Designer/Developer

  Bryan Connor

  Designer/Developer

  
  

  "Critics, Critique and Critical Visualization"

  Bryan Connor is a designer and developer from Baltimore. He runs the visualization website The Why Axis (thewhyaxis.info), which enriches the discussion surrounding the current state of data visualization through case studies, interviews and analysis.

• 11:45a

  Lunch

• 

  Robert Kosara

  EagerEyes.org and Visual Analysis Researcher, Tableau Software

  1:30p

  Keynote

  Robert Kosara

  EagerEyes.org and Visual Analysis Researcher, Tableau Software

  Robert Kosara is a Visual Analysis Researcher at Tableau Software, and formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. He has created visualization techniques like Parallel Sets and performed research into the perceptual and cognitive basics of visualization.
  
  Recently, Robert's research has focused on how to communicate data using tools from visualization, and how storytelling can be adapted to incorporate data, interaction, and visualization.
  
  

• 2:30p

  Demo Showcase

  An exhibition-hall style event with demo stations showcasing projects and products that support new forms of data storytelling.

• 

  Scott McCloud

  American Cartoonist and Theorist on
  Comics

  4:00p

  Keynote

  Scott McCloud

  American Cartoonist and Theorist on Comics

  Scott McCloud has been making comics professionally since 1984 and today is best known for a number of books, comics and storytelling innovations like The 24 Hour Comic. Scott says, “Depending on who you ask, I'm either comics' leading theorist or a deranged lunatic, but life continues to be very interesting for me and the ideas that I've raised continue to provoke reactions throughout the comics community and -- increasingly -- beyond it.”.
  
  Scott is the author of, among other things, Understanding Comics: a 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design.
  
  The book is the winner of the Harvey and Eisner Award, the Alph'art Award at Angoulême, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1994 (mass market edition).

• 5:00p

  End

• 5:30p

  Bus to Louisville for NICAR Conference

  Any attendees continuing on to NICAR are invited to join us on a charter bus for the approximately 2.5 hour drive to Louisville.