Enhancing Data Visualization Community Engagement through Viz and Tell Sessions
This resource outlines a model for building a critical community focused on data visualization, offering Viz and Tell/Coffee Break sessions to encourage engagement and learning. Topics covered include visualization instruction, tools, ethics, data journalism, and more. The model emphasizes open discussion, guest experts, and low barriers to participation, with benefits such as exposure to diverse expertise. Challenges such as online engagement, guest expert expectations, and Zoom fatigue are also discussed.
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Building community discussion Viz and Tells and Coffee Breaks for building engagement Ryan Clement Data Services Librarian, Middlebury VTF Public Symposium 2021
Building a critical community Building on current work supporting data visualization in libraries, this grant aims to create a diverse community that will further advance data visualization instruction and use beyond hands-on, technology-based tutorials toward a nuanced, critical understanding of visualization as a research product and form of expression. - Visualizing the Future CFP 6. Lower walls between disciplines 7. Create and support professional development opportunities - Proposal for The Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods (midd.data)
The Viz and Tell/Coffee Break model Open to all Discussion focused, not lectures/demos Guest experts (as appropriate) Low barriers to participation Aimed at range of experience levels No heavy pre- discussion requirements (for facilitators OR participants) Community notes
What kind of topics do we cover? VTF Viz and Tells MiddLab Coffee Breaks Visualization instruction Visualization in library assessment Social -> networking, keeping up with trends, career advice Tools -> teaching, selecting, agnosticism Show and tell R & Python VTF ethics instruction module Data journalism Open access/open data Ethics and data Virtual machines and access equity Data management Document accessibility Information security Data visualization tools Web accessibility Open source tools
Benefits and challenges Benefits Challenges Mixing of departments, fac/staff/students, experience/skill levels, locations Gives exposure to unique areas of expertise Not a lot of work for organizers or facilitators (beyond planning topics and email/communication) Holding these online allows for a diversity of discussion styles Some folks really want a passive/consumer experience Sometimes tough to get guest experts to understand this isn t a presentation Being online makes it tough to offer other incentives (e.g. coffee, snacks) Zoom fatigue
Next steps Viz and Tell about the Viz and Tells -> right after these lightning talks! Coffee breaks -> at Middlebury, we plan to discuss our calendar of topics for next year, as well as figuring out if we should stay fully remote/go to a hybrid model At Middlebury we re also discussing the possibility of pairing the Coffee Break topics with a related workshop, at some other point in the month (or perhaps some online module(s))
