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Curious to learn how to turn your live presentation into data visualisation? In this interactive webinar, Kirell Benziuses his audience to determine his presentation’s outcome and introduces Data Art. You’ll learn how data and your own audience can be used as a new communication medium to tell impactful stories on big data and artificial intelligence by combining scientific rigour with creativity.

This lesson explores the impact of open data reuse on government, society, environment and economy through webinars and examples of European open data and best practices in fields like mobility, journalism, agriculture, and smart cities. You’ll get a better understanding about the importance of monitoring open data reuse and different ways to do it. By the end, you'll understand the potential of open data reuse and be inspired to make a difference.

Everyone produces data every day. This data represents aspects such as our daily life, our journeys, and our possessions. So, how can we exploit this?  In this webinar, Caroline Goulard explains how to work with “hidden data” to visualise intangible phenomena and provides recommendations on how to collectively use it to improve our data ecosystems and create new services or improve existing ones.

Have a passion for design, information, numbers, and storytelling? In this webinar, David McCandles combines these passionsto create a hyper-visual presentation and tell his story. You’ll learn how to illuminate the rules and best-practices of visualisation, explore the growing power of interactivity in storytelling, identify the role of “creative play” for finding and sharing insight, and recognise how to tell stories with unusual materials like data.

Are you looking to produce an interactive map to visualise information such as investment or finance data? In this webinar, Steve Albrecht discusses how the European Investment Fund collaborated with The Information Lab to produce an interactive map visualising investments across the EU. You’ll learn how to go from project design to technical realisation and how you and your organisation can become data-driven and resilient in the digital era.

Information can get lost in a long document. How can we get it out? In this lesson, we have three webinars that deep dive into how you can go beyond a printed document and annual report, and instead have a human-centred information design process that can be used to develop a modern, data-driven government publication that incorporates data visualisation and data-driven storytelling.

In this digital era, data visualisation is a critical asset and essential tool that allows people to grasp information in a second. This was also true during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic where open governmental data became crucial to sustaining and improving people’s quality of life. In this webinar, Barnaby Skinner highlightsa spectrum of impactful to less efficient examples of data repositories during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares a set of guidelines consisting of nine recommendations for data sharing policies by governmental bodies.

Furthermore, watch the session on 'The European Drug Report: using an open Data approach to improve data visualisation' where experts from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discuss their experiences with data-driven approaches. They explore how open data has reshaped their reporting strategies, introducing more interactive visualisations. The webinar will also highlight the challenges and opportunities encountered in becoming a more data-centric organization.