Global Data Visualization Meetups
Shared online events with Meetup groups around the globe
It all started in 2020…
The COVID-19 pandemic had forced all of us to change to online events, and many groups stopped having events at all. In 2021, I started organizing free, joint-online Meetup events with multiple Data Visualization groups around the globe.
The idea is that all of the participating groups post the event with an online link to the same online meeting or webinar. The host group runs the event, but members can attend the online event from anywhere in the world.
My hope is that the benefits of these joint events are:
Provide ongoing events and content for groups to share with their members
Keep members engaged, especially when in-person events are not possible
Help groups offer events from speakers that are not nearby and avoids travel costs
Help speakers that are volunteering their time to reach larger audiences
Promote sharing and conversations in the larger data visualization community
Give sponsors a larger audience when they support dataviz community events
Participation is voluntary for all of the groups. I’m the Organizer for the Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin and Silicon Valley Data Visualization Meetup Groups. In addition to my groups, the following groups have participated or helped promote our events:
DFW Data Visualization (Dallas/Fort Forth, TX)
Silicon Valley Data Visualization (Palo Alto, CA)
Data Visualization Group in the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA)
STL Data Vizzards (St. Louis, MO)
Twin Cities (Data) Visualization Group (Minneapolis, MN)
Vancouver Data Visualization (Vancouver, BC)
Data Visualization in Munich (München, Germany)
Dataviz Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)
Data Visualization Zurich (Zürich, Switzerland)
DataViz CPH (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Data Visualization Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
If you are a DataViz Meetup organizer and are interested in sharing future online shared events with your members, please CONTACT me for details. We are always looking to include more groups.
Any DataViz Meetup group can be the Host group for an event. If they have a speaker event that is shareable and appropriate for everyone to promote, they can let the rest of the Organizers know the details to post to our local membership. The Host group runs the event, and of the other DataViz Meetup group Organizers are encouraged to create an event on Meetup for their group promoting the Event.
So far, we have had Joint-Online events hosted by the groups in Dallas/Fort Worth, New York, Washington DC, and Utah.
Past Joint-Online Meetups
You can view the video recordings of the past Meetups on YouTube. Here are some of the past speaker events we have held:
July 2022; Cameron Yick (NYC), Bridging the code-click gap with low code data visualization
June 2022: Richard Brath (DFW), 70 Very Different Visualizations of Alice in Wonderland
May 2022: Robert Kosara (NYC), How to Show Ordinary Data in Extraordinary Ways
May 2022: Veronica Penny (Denver), Exploring Data Journalism in Colorado
Mar 2022: Ray Vella (DFW), Visualizing Metrics
Feb 2022: Dr. Lace Padilla (NYC), Visualizing Our Uncertain World
Dec 2021: Laurie Frick (DFW/Austin), I Want My Data!
Oct 2021: Alli Torban, Danielle Alberti, Randy Krum, Jill Brown (DC), The Future of DataViz Panel
Jun 2021: Miriah Meyer (Utah), Research Through the Practice of Visualization Design
Jun 2021: Steve Wexler (NYC), Why dashboards fail and what you can do to ensure they succeed
Apr 2021: Jon Schwabish (DFW), Why Your Organization Needs a Data Visualization Style Guide
If you are a DataViz Practitioner, Designer, Author, Instructor, Speaker or Entrepreneur and are interested in speaking at a future online shared event, please CONTACT me.
