Please join UT Libraries on Monday, February 10, from 11:30 am-1:30 pm in Perry-Castañeda Library’s Scholars Lab as we kick off International Love Data Week 2025 with the launch of our Scholars Lab Speaker Series!
This free program features a special one-hour presentation from the esteemed Dr. Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Infographics and Data Visualization at University of Miami. Dr. Cairo’s presentation, Visualization: An Art of Insight, is the inaugural Scholars Lab Speaker Series talk in UT Libraries’ digital scholarship center, Scholars Lab. A free lunch will be served.
What better way to celebrate our love for data? Join us for Visualization: An Art of Insight!
Visualization: An Art of Insight
In the past few decades, information visualization has been embraced by a wide variety of scholars and professionals — journalists, artists, digital humanists, statisticians, scientists, and many others. Visualization can be used as a powerful tool for exploration and discovery, but also as a means to communicate insights to people. However, due to its fast adoption, visualization is also often misunderstood. This talk will persuade you to abandon certain myths about visualization, and will show you how to use it more ethically and effectively.
About Dr. Alberto Cairo
Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Infographics and Data Visualization at the University of Miami. He's also director of visualization at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing. Cairo has led graphics departments at news publications in Spain, Brazil, and the United States, and is widely considered a pioneer in interactive and data journalism. He's the author of four books about information design and visualization, The Functional Art (2012), The Truthful Art (2016), How Charts Lie (2019), and The Art of Insight (2023). Today, Cairo works as a consultant and instructor for numerous tech companies and governmental organizations in the United States and Europe.
About International Love Data Week
Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities.
