Schedule: Visualization and UX sessions

Statistical and machine learning techniques are only useful when they're understood by decision makers. While implementing these techniques is easier than ever, communicating about their assumptions and mechanics is not. Michael Freeman details a design process for crafting visual explanations of analytical techniques and communicating them to stakeholders. Read more.

Brian O'Neill explains how design is fundamentally improving the bottom line of business and can help data teams uncover the real problems and needs of customers and business stakeholders. Join in to learn and practice a key aspect of good design: how to properly interview stakeholders and users. Read more.

Science fiction has been showcasing complex, AI-driven interfaces for decades. As TV, movies, and video games have become more capable of visualizing a possible future, the grandeur of these imagined science fictional interfaces has increased. Mars Geldard and Paris Buttfield-Addison investigate what we can learn from Hollywood UX. Is there a useful takeaway? Does sci-fi show the future of AI UX? Read more.