Virtual and In-Person | October 27th – 30th, 2020

Data Visualization Track

Explore the beauty of visualization brought to you by the world’s most creative minds

Data Visualization

The data visualization track at ODSC West 2020 brings together the world’s most creative minds that are changing the way we visualize, understand, and interact with data. Join a community of designers, data scientists, and developers to learn the art of storytelling, information communication, and data visualization using the latest open source tools and techniques.

We offer multiple talks, workshops, and interactive presentations to help you understand and create beautiful, insightful, and actionable data graphics and visuals.

Previous Speakers

Jared Lander

Chief Data Scientist, Author of R for Everyone, Professor at Lander Analytics, Columbia Business School

Jane Adams

Data Visualization Artist at University of Vermont Complex Systems Center

Dr. Kirk Borne

Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton

Mehrnoosh Sameki, PhD

Technical Program Manager at Microsoft

Eric Ma, PhD

Data Carpentry Instructor and Author of nxviz Package

Joy Payton

Supervisor, Data Education at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Ryan Harter

Senior Staff Data Scientist at Mozilla

Paul Kowalczyk, PhD

Senior Data Scientist at Solvay

Saptarshi Guha, PhD

Senior Staff Data Scientist at Mozilla

Sessions on Data Visualization

Workshop: A Hands-On Tutorial for Training Interpretable Variational Autoencoders Using siVAE
Tutorial: Causal Inference in Data Science
Training: Painting with Data: Introduction to d3.js

Training: From Stored Data To Data Stories: Building Data Narratives With Open-source Tools
Training: Building Web Applications in R Using Shiny
Workshop: Mapping Geographic Data in R

Training: From Numbers to Narrative: Turning Raw Data into Compelling Stories with Impact
Training: Data Visualization: From Square One to Interactivity

You Will Meet

The Data Visualization track at ODSC West 2020 is where industry’s top creative minds gather to discuss and shape the most exciting trends and topics in data visualization. Whether you are a data visualization expert, or just starting your journey on better data presentation, this is the conference for you.

Thought leaders working in data science
Data visualization professionals
Graphic artists

Data scientists
UX designers
Business intelligence experts

Graphic designers
Media & publishing data storytellers
Startup founders and executives

Why Attend?

Organizations are now understanding the need to break down big data to make it intuitive, insightful, and actionable. Be among the first to understand the power of data visualization.

Immerse yourself in two days of in-depth talks and workshops on data visualization and data science topics, tools, and languages.

Get full access to the full suite of recorded presentations on-demand post conference.

With an incredible lineup, this event will provide the training and insight for professionals who understand their organization’s need to deliver compelling data visualization.

Get access to the Open Data Visualization Conference plus 5 other co-located conferences including open data science, big data science, and disruptive data science.

Connect with peers and top industry professionals at our many networking events to discover your next job, service, product or startup.

Virtual and In-Person | October 27th – 30th, 2020

Data Visualization Track

Explore the beauty of visualization brought to you by the world’s most creative minds