Visualization and Story Telling
August 13, 2025 11:00 am (Central Time)
Abstract
In this talk, learn about different approaches to visualizing data, with particular emphasis on how to place those visualizations in the broader context of storytelling.
Speakers
Matthew Turk
Department of Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Matthew Turk is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences and also holds an appointment with the Department of Astronomy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research is focused on how individuals interact with data and how that data is processed and understood.
At the University of Illinois, he leads the Data Exploration Lab and teaches in Data Visualization, Data Storytelling, and Computational Astrophysics.