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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.

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.

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.

There are several ways to use algorithms and machine learning to create data visualisation. In his webinar, Andreas Refsgaard shows that they can be used to enable people to play music using only their eye movement and facial gestures, to control games by making silly sounds, or transform drawings of musical instruments on paper into real compositions.

Do you want to learn how to make data visualisations more impactful? In this webinar, Jovan Lekovic demonstrates how designing with aesthetics in mind is a step to improved data visualisations. Lekovic shares what we can learn from research in design aesthetics, and how that can help you create better-looking charts, visualisations, and reports.

Is it possible to merge economic and policy research with best practices from information design, software development, data science, product management, and digital humanities?  In this webinar, Annie White and Nil Tuzcu show how data visualisation can be a vital channel to effectively interpret and analyse complex concepts. You’ll learn aboutthe dynamics of growth and how to translate those insights into more effective digital policymaking tools.

Evidence does not speak for itself – it must be communicated. But how can we use visualisation to create instant clarity from complex messages or data?  Citizens, policymakers, and scientists all speak a different language how can we translate messages through powerful visualisations, and innovative communication?  In this webinar, Darren McGarryaddresses these challenges and presents pragmatic solutions based on the knowledge and experience from Joint Research Centre experts, combined with lessons learned through collaboration with visualisation and storytelling experts from various domains.

Data visualisation is as susceptible to misinterpretation and manipulation as any other communication method. How do you spot misleading visuals, prevent biases when selecting the context and visualisation, and ensure that data and visual literacy to prevent misinformation? In this webinar,Xaquin G.V. tackles these questions,highlights good practices for visualisation and presents relevant and recent examples of visuals on the topic of COVID-19 in the media.

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.

Are you looking to produce an interactive map to visualise information such as a social, economic, or environmental development data? In this webinar, Tuny Fujs demonstrates how the World Bank uses open data, open code, and open knowledge for the most effective visualisations. You’ll learn how to identify what data you need for your visualisation and why its important, and how you can tell a story and take your audience on a journey.