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The 5th annual Tapestry Conference was held on March 1st, 2017, and over 100 invitees from journalism, academia, government and both the non-profit and for-profit private sectors gathered at the beautiful Casa Monica resort in St. Augustine, Florida to discuss the emerging discipline of data storytelling.

Below are the ten presentations from the one-day event that spurred rich... Read more

What can I teach a room full of data storytellers?
 
This is the question I’ve been pondering.
 
This will be my first time attending Tapestry—between maternity leaves and other commitments, this is the first year the stars have aligned and I’m able to join. I’m excited. And also nervous, because the audience is quite different from my typical audience of... Read more

We are happy to announce our final two short stories for Tapestry 2017: Jewel Loree and Chris Mast


Jewel Loree manages the storytelling team at Tableau and before that worked with Tableau Public authors for several years.

For the past 3 years, she has done an annual analysis of the playlist of her favorite radio station, KEXP in Seattle. Every year the data looks... Read more

We're excited to announce two more short story speakers for the upcoming 2017 Tapestry Conference, which will be held on March 1 in St. Augustine, Florida!

Nathaniel Lash, data reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, spent much of his time in 2015 on Failure Factories, an interactive data story that walks readers through what happened to five schools after the Phinellas County School... Read more

We have three exciting keynotes planned for next year’s Tapestry, and we are looking to add speakers who want to present short stories, posters, and demos. The deadlines for the first two are coming up soon, but there’s a bit more time for demos. The First Two Short Stories To get things started, we have picked two great first short stories. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic teaches people how to... Read more