Strata+Hadoop World NYC 2015 Discount

If you want to attend the Strata+Hadoop World conference in New York City on September 29-October 1, 2015, make sure you use the discount code "AFF20" for 20% off the registration price! This code is available to Cool Infographics readers as part of my partnership with O'Reilly and I want to make sure everyone knows it's available!

Last year the conference sold out, so don't wait too long!

Strata + Hadoop World is the biggest data conference in the world, and it shows. The agenda is packed—take a look at what's new:

• New Keynotes—David Boyle, Katherine Milkman, Jeff Jonas, and Maciej Ceglowski (to name just a few).
• Some training courses are already sold out—and many tutorials are filling up fast. (Hurry if you want to get in on Data 101, Spark Camp, Developing a Modern Enterprise Data Strategy, or Hardcore Data Science)
• Industry sessions—financial services, media, health, music, social good: if you're in any of these industries, don't miss these sessions.
• Cultivate Conference—learn how to lead through culture and transform your business, at Cultivate (Sept 28-29), co-located with Strata + Hadoop World.

Strata + Hadoop World is coming to NYC almost a month earlier this year, September 29-October 1. Make your plans today before it sells out again.

I Need Your Votes for SxSW 2016

7 Deadly Sins of Infographics Design and How to Fix Them

SXSW 2016 Interactive PanelPicker voting is now open, and I need your votes! My talk proposal entitled "7 Deadly Sins of Infographics Design and How to Fix Them" will explore examples of the top seven mistakes designers often make, and more importantly, offer design tips to overcome these common design blunders. Follow the steps below to vote:

Step 1: Go to PanelPicker to view my proposal.

Step 2: Log in or create an account.

Step 3: Give my proposal the thumbs up to vote!

Step 4: Post a comment (SXSW loves this).

Step 5: Share with your friends on social media.

I've only given this talk once before at the Malofiej Infographics World Summit in Spain, and I'm scheduled to present it at the Big Design Dallas conference in September. (Come join me if you're in the Dallas area!)

Community voting is a large part of the PanelPicker process, so I'm reaching out to you for your support. Please vote before September 4th!

For more information on my talk, please visit Slideshare for a preview.

Thanks for your help!

Infographics at SxSW V2V in Las Vegas

Next week on Monday, July 20th I'll be hosting a Mentor Session at the SxSW V2V conference in Las Vegas! The goal of the mentor program is to help conference attendees benefit from the knowledge of an established professionals in a one-on-one career counsel setting.  Mentor sessions are essentially individual Ask Me Anything consulting sessions where it's first come - first serve to talk about infographics, data visualization, business plans, presentations, marketing strategies, visual content, SEO or just running a small startup business.

Infographics Meetup! Additionally, on Tuesday, July 21st at 8-9pm I'll be hosting a DataViz and Infographics social meetup at the Lily Bar in the Bellagio. This will be a great opportunity to grab a drink and chat all things design, data, and of course infographics. Even if you're not attending the SxSW conference, come join me!

Send me a note on Twitter @rtkrum if you'll be at the SxSW V2V event, or just want to meet in Las Vegas!

Who's Going to Malofiej 23?

The Malofiej 23 Workshop days will be March 15-18, 2015, and the Infographics World Summit conference will be March 18-20, 2015. Malofiej 23 will be held this year in Pamplona, Spain by the Spanish Chapter of the Society for New Design (SNDE). The line up of speakers looks amazing! I’ll be giving a talk, but I can’t wait to hear some of these other fantastic speakers!

Here’s the link to download the conference program PDF:

This year I have will have the honor of both speaking during the conference, and acting as a judge for the Malofiej Awards. I’m putting together a new presentation titled “The Seven Deadly Sins of Infographics Design” that I will present during the conference portion.

If you have plans to attend the workshop or conference, let me know and we can arrange to meetup.

SxSW Voting Guide for Infographics and Data Visualization

We Need Your Votes!

The 2015 SxSW Voting Guide for Infographics and Data Visualization

It’s already time to start thinking about the 2015 SxSW Interactive Conference!  This past year there were more than 15 fantastic sessions about infographics and data visualization, which I summarized in my recap post “The State of Infographics at SxSW 2014”.  We’re planning for 2015 to be even bigger for the world of infographics, but we need your help!

Event proposals have all been submitted, and the next part of the process is public voting on the presentations and panels to help the SxSW committee choose which events to include in the schedule of events.  All of you can vote on the proposals related to data visualization and infographics to help make sure they make it into the schedule.  Please register on the SxSW PanelPicker site and cast your votes for all of them or just your favorites.

The voting period is August 11th - September 5th!  There were over 3,000 proposals submitted this year, and the best proposals related to infographics and data visualization I could find are in the list below.  However, I’m sure there are more.  Please post links to any proposals I missed in the comments below.  We need your votes, social shares and comments on the SxSW site to help convince the committee to include these sessions. 

To make sure each of these are chosen we need you to:

First - Vote for each of your favorites

Second -  Share on social using the buttons on the SxSW pages to increase the counters

Third - Comment on their relevancy to you personally, the committee will review the comments

• The Science of Infographics, Randy Krum
• Jumping the Shark: The Evolution of Infographics, Randy Krum, Cristin Moran, Jarred Romley, Brad Woodard
• Your Resume Isn’t Enough: Go Visual!, Jim Hopkinson, Randy Krum
• The Challenge of Teaching Data Visualization, Jon Schwabish, Cole Nussbaumer, Ben Shneiderman, Kaiser Fung
• Picturing Your Big Ideas, Nora Herting
• Why You Need a Business Story And How To Create It, David Sloly
• The Future of Infographics (Mentor Session), Brian Wallace
• Data Design: Where math and art collide, Trina Chiasson
• Visual Solutions To Your Social Media Hangover, Dan Roam, Jessica Gioglio, Ekaterina Walter
• In Data We Trust Blindly: The Data Literacy Crisis, Greg Hochmuth
• 100 yrs of data viz and we still use pie charts?, Andy Cotgreave
• Visualizing Data in the Army, Charles Driessnack
• Data Viz as Valium: How Visualization Tames Nerves, Emily Fuhrman
• This Is Your Brain on Visual Data, Sasha Pasulka
• Use visualization to Help You Think Thru Decisions, Angela Shen-Hsieh
• Evolution of Big Data Visualization at Facebook, Andy Kriebel, Bryan Brandow
• Elephant Camo: Getting Big Data to Blend In, Eric Swayne
• Mandatory Skill For the Future: Information Design, Jason Lankow

Help us make data visualization and infographics the best topic at SxSW 2015!

The State of Infographics at SxSW 2014

I post all types of infographics and data visualizations from designers all over the world here on Cool Infographics, and as a recap, I wanted to take stock of the state of infographics and data visualization at this year’s SxSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX.

I’ve been going to SxSW for a few years now, and infographics have been a growing presence in the Interactive portion of the conference every year.  You can find hidden sessions about data visualization, visual communication and infographics in different portions of the conference like the new SXsports, Health and Business sessions.

Check the links and search the presentation hashtags on Twitter to find more information and audience comments from each event.  I know I didn’t catch everything, so send me links to anything (Events, notes, slides, etc) I missed through the Contact page or the comments and I’ll add appropriate ones into the post!

*Sessions I was able to attend

Official Events:

• The Onions of Interactive Infographic Design (#adobesxsw)
  • Sarah Hunt, Product Manager, Adobe Systems @sarahwhatsup
  • This session covered the value of creating animated, interactive infographics with HTML your readers care about using Adobe Edge Animate.
  • Presentation online: http://sarahjustine.com/sneakyfolder/pres
• Sports Don’t Look the Same Anymore* (#sportsviz)
  • John Meyer, Founder, Statographics and CEO, Lemonly @johntmeyer
  • Meyer examined how infographics, data visualizations, and interactive pieces have changed the landscape for scouts, managers and marketers inside of the game, as well as fans and fantasy players outside the game.
  • Slides available online at bit.ly/sportsviz
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• Truth Will Set You Free but Data Will Piss You Off* (#dataethics)
  • Grace Rodriguez, Founder/President, C2 Create @gracerodriguez
  • Jake Porway, Executive Director, DataKind @jakeporway @DataKind
  • Jonathan Schwabish, Government Economist, PolicyViz @jschwabish
  • Kim Rees, Co-Founder, Periscopic @krees @Periscopic
  • This session explored the issues and ethics around data visualization—a subject of recent debate in the data visualization community—and suggest how we can use data in tandem with social responsibility.
  • Storify notes: http://storify.com/gracerodriguez/sxsw-panel-the-truth-may-set-you-free-but-data-wil
• The Most Influential Visualizations of All Time (#5vizzes)
  • Andy Cotgreave, Social Content Mgr, Tableau Software @acotgreave
  • We’ve chosen the 5 most influential visualizations of all time. Each of the charts in this list instigated change: one helped eradicate cholera, another revolutionized nursing.
  • Presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/TableauSoftware/the-most-influential-vizzes-of-all-time-sxsw
  • Andy’s summary blog post: http://gravyanecdote.com/uncategorized/sxsw-the-most-influential-visualisations-of-all-time/
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• Actively Participating in the Big Data Revolution (#DataRev)
  • Elissa Fink, CMO, Tableau Software @elissafink
  • In this talk, Elissa will share their stories and offer insights into how we can all become more data-driven, every day
  • HighOnData Dashboard: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/highondata
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• The Tyranny of Edward Tufte* (#tuftyranny)
  • Gabriel Schaffzin, Researcher & Designer & Builder, Skeptic @gabischaffzin
  • When Edward Tufte tweets mockingly of the leaked NSA slides, he does so as the self-anointed king of presenting evidence. Empiricism’s head cheerleader, he has built an empire on telling everyone—lowly marketer to NASA bigwig—what Truth looks like.  And we eat it up. 
  • Presentation slides: http://utopia-dystopia.com/blog/2014/3/8/sxsw-interactive-2014-austin-tx
• Scientist to Storyteller: How to Narrate Data (#Sci2Story)
  • Eric Swayne, Prod Mgr/Analytics Dir, BuzzShift @eswayne
  • Storify: http://storify.com/40deuce/scientist-to-storyteller-how-to-narrate-data-sci2s
  • Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/xkqdi1lq8iix/scientist-to-storyteller-how-to-narrate-your-data/
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• Visually Turning Complexity into Clarity* (#clarity)
  • Fernanda Viégas, Research Scientist, Google @viegasf
  • Graham Roberts, Graphics/Multimedia Editor, The New York Times @Grahaphics
  • Karl Gude, Graphics Editor in Residence, School of Journalism at Michigan State University @karlgude
  • Ronnie Lipton, Info Design Author, Trainer, Consult @ronnielipton
  • We are a unique gathering of professional visual communicators who employ a wide variety of storytelling platforms (print, interactive and motion graphics) and visual tools (maps, graphs, diagrams, video, etc.) to do our jobs. We will explain our process for finding visual stories in the data, discuss the best technologies for doing what we do and illustrate how we build, plan and execute graphics.
  • Wind Maps: http://hint.fm/wind/ 
  • Sketchnotes: https://twitter.com/KKellyMSU/status/443484058043944960/photo/1
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• Show & Tell: How to Present, Extraordinarily (#ShowTell)
  • Dan Roam, President, Digital Roam Inc @dan_roam
  • There are 3 simple rules for making an extraordinary presentation: 
    1. Tell the truth 
    2. Tell it with a story 
    3. Tell the story with pictures
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• Mentor Session: Brian Wallace (#infographs)
  • Brian Wallace @nowsourcing is the founder of NowSourcing, Inc., a infographic design and social media agency since 2005 serving everyone from startups to the Fortune 500 and everything in between.
• Workshop: Pimp Your Pitch: Learn Visual Storytelling (#pitchfix)
  • Nancy Duarte, Principal, Duarte @nancyduarte
  • Paul Brown, VP, Duarte @Duarte
  • Mike Pacchione, Facilitator, Duarte @mpacc
  • Ryan Orcutt, Assoc Creative Dir, Duarte 
  • This Visual Storytelling workshop will teach you how to create audience empathy, address resistance, heighten emotional appeal, and strengthen your story structure to persuade your audience.
• Book Signing, Randy Krum, Cool Infographics* - that’s me! (#coolinfobook)
  • Randy Krum @rtkrum @Coolinfographic appeared at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design”
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• Book Signing, Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise (#ESPNbrand)
  • Nate Silver @NateSilver538 appeared at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t”
• Book Signing, Dan Roam, Show & Tell (#ShowTell)
  • Dan Roam @dan_roam appeared at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “The Back of the Napkin” and his new book launched at SxSW this year “Show & Tell!”
• Book Signing, Nancy Duarte, Resonate* (#pitchfix)
  • Nancy Duarte @nancyduarte appeared at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”.
• The SxSW Trade Show Floor
  • I found three trade show booths this year related to infographics:
  • Tableau Software booth 
  • Visual.ly booth* 
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  • Now Sourcing booth* 
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• Graphic Recordings of SxSW Interactive Events
  • ImageThink @ImageThink created a bunch of LIVE graphic recordings from prominent sessions and made them available for everyone to see across from Ballroom A in the Austin Convention Center and online.
  • Full SxSW gallery online: http://imagethink.smugmug.com/Conferences/2014/SXSWi-2014/37565133_dFJ2tf
  • http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/graphic-recordings-2014-sxsw-interactive-content-march-15-update
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Unofficial Sessions:

• The Attention Economy with Walter, book signing by Ekaterina Walter @Ekaterina, co-author of The Power of Visual Storytelling
  • “Attention is the new commodity. Visual storytelling is the new currency,” say co-authors Ekaterina Walter and Jessica Gioglio in their new book The Power of Visual Storytelling.  The first 100 attendees for Ekaterina’s signing will get a copy of her book. Come chat with Ekaterina about the visualization revolution and her thoughts about SxSW Interactive 2014.
  • Hosted by Vocus @Vocus
  • http://www.eventbrite.com/e/wtf-sxsw-visualize-a-powerful-future-tickets-10822280733
• FH Black Box lounge at the Four Seasons (#FHBlackBox)
  • Fleishman Hillard @Fleishman hosted the Black Box Lounge throughout SxSW Interactive with a massive Social Media Control Center that was visualizing millions of data points and mentions online about SxSW.
  • http://fleishmanhillard.com/
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• Column Five announced the release of Visage
  • Column Five @columnfive announced their new interactive data visualization tool, Visage at SxSW.
  • “Visage is a new Web-based platform that transforms the uninspired data in your reports into beautiful, branded visualizations that make your message more impactful—and make your work look good. The easy-to-use software helps you create high-quality, professional visualizations that are accurate, effective and elegant.”
  • http://www.columnfivemedia.com/blog/introducing-visage-our-new-visualization-platform
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• Cool Infographics Meetup
  • Special thanks to the team at the Fleishman Hillard Black Box Lounge!  They allowed me to host the Cool Infographics @Coolinfographic meetup event after my book signing on Monday for anyone that wanted to hang out.  It was also an opportunity to meet fans and sign books for people that didn’t have official SxSW badges.
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Please help add anything I missed by posting in the comments below or sending me a note through the Contact page.  I’ll add new content into the post above.

Update on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 9:51AM by Randy

A modified version of this post was featured on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-krum/infographics-at-sxsw_b_5001070.html

Live Events in Washington DC and Florida

If you’re located near Washington, DC or Fort Lauderdale, FL, I’ll be there next week!  I have a packed schedule of both public and private events, so check your schedule and join me if you can!  I’ll be presenting about data visualization and infographics, and signing books.  I look forward to meeting you!

Washington DC

Monday, Feb 10th, 3:00pm CBO (Congressional Budget Office) - private event and book signing

Tuesday, Feb 11th, 12:00pm, Noblis Tech Tuesday - private event and book signing

Tuesday, Feb 11th, 6:30pm, Data Visualization DC Meetup group - PUBLIC presentation, book signing and data drinks!

Register here: http://www.meetup.com/Data-Visualization-DC/events/164211042/

Wednesday, Feb 12th, Greater Washington Board of Trade Morning Star Speaker Series - PUBLIC event

* Discount for Cool Infographics readers - use the code “Cool*Infographics” at checkout to get the member price even if you’re a non-member ($25 discount)!

** No book sales allowed in the Ronald Reagan Building, so you must purchase a book beforehand if you would like me to sign it at the event.  You will be offered the chance to buy a book during online registration.

Register here: http://www.bot.org/events/programs/morning-star-speaker-series/randy-krum.aspx

Miami, FL

Thursday, Feb 13th, 11:00am, University of Miami - Guest Lecturer in Alberto Cairo’s Visual Journalism Infographics class

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Thursday, Feb 13th, 6:30pm, sfim@ (South Florida Interactive Marketing Association) - PUBLIC event and networking

Register here: http://www.sfima.com/EventDetail.aspx?id=872

You can always find my current list of upcoming events on the Appearances page!

Update on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 1:51PM by Randy

The presentation slides from a few of the events are available on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/rtkrum/data-visualization-dc-meetup-cool-infographics-presentation-feb-2014

Strata Conf London Nov 11-13 - 20% Discount Code

If you have any thoughts of attending the 2013 Strata Conference in London, England, the discount code “AFF20” will cut 20% off the registration price for readers of Cool Infographics!  Big data, visualization, privacy, science and business!  What’s not to love?!?

This is an expensive conference, so the 20% discount is a BIG deal; saving hundreds of dollars!  The 2013 conference will run from November 11-13, 2013 in London, England.

The future will be data-driven.  But who’s driving the data?

If it’s you—or it should be you—join us at Strata Conference to explore the opportunities made possible by the latest state-of-the-art data tools and analytic approaches.

Get the skills, tools, and technologies to make your data work successfully today—and the insights to plan for a data-driven future.

See Conference April 20th

see#8 | 20 APRIL 2013 | SCHLACHTHOF WIESBADEN from Scholz & Volkmer GmbH on Vimeo.

I really wish I could make it to the See Conference (The Conference on Visualization of Information) in Germany (www.see-conference.org).  This year looks like they have a great conference lined up!

For eighth years now the see conference has been gathering the most creative people and exciting ideas on the topic of information visualization. The interdisciplinary platform brings together fields like design, art, architecture and new technologies. Our international speakers will show the latest ideas and approaches on how to deal with the current flood of information, on how to visualize it and turn it into something that can be experienced. Among our new speakers at see#8: Data journalist Francesco Franchi, Dutch design studio Catalogtree and British-born Antony Turner from Carbon Visuals. More info regarding program and tickets at www.see-conference.org. 

Event: see conference #8 
Date: 20 April 2013 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany 
URL: www.see-conference.org

If you have a chance to make it to this conference, I would highly recommend it.  When I looked today, there were only 161 seats left!

Let me know what you think if you make it to the conference!

SxSW 2013, an infographic

Rocksauce Studios has released SxSW 2013, an infographic looking at the basic statistics and demographic data around this year’s South By Southwest conference in Austin , TX.

The seven SXSW events — gaming expo, interactive, film, trade show, music, music gear expo and flatstock — attracted an audience of more than 300,000 last year (though only a sliver were badge holders). The PDF offers an attendance breakdown.

Demographics: the largest percentage of attendees are between the ages of 31 and 40; 86 percent of registrants are from the U.S.; 60 percent of attendees are male; and 29 percent of festival goers work in the creative industries.

Five companies to see success with SXSW include Foursquare, Twitter, Gamesalad, Phonebooth and Foodspotting.

The 2013 SXSW festival runs March 8-17.

300,000 attendees last year, and this year looks to be even bigger! Not sure why they released it as a huge, high-resolution PDF file, but the you can download it here.

Thanks to David for sending in the link, and also found on the Austin Business Journal

HEY!  I’m headed down to Austin on Friday for SxSW, so I would love to hear from anyone else headed down there as well.  Should we have an infographics meetup?