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Creative Community Update #2

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• industry updates from the dataviz world
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Below is an excerpt from our latest issue, with key industry updates from the dataviz world:

News

• Data Visualization State of the Industry 2022 Report: This annual report presents data from 1,500+ dataviz practitioners on their demographics, occupations, compensation, tools of choice and more.
• Observable releases Gephi Lite: A ‘free and open-source web application to visualise and explore networks. It is a lighter version of Gephi, on the web’.

Events

• Viz for Social Good with WHO (April 18-May 23): New project calling for volunteers on transforming data into powerful, accessible visualisations for positive change.
• Outlier Conference 2023 (May 3-5): The third annual Outlier will take place online and in Porto, Portugal.
• Tableau Conference 2023 (May 9-11): 200+ sessions packed into three days in Las Vegas.
• IsVis 2023 (May 17): The Israeli Visualisation Conference at the University of Haifa.
• Graphic Hunters S-H-O-W (June 1-2): A two-day event filled with talks and workshops by data journalists, data designers, data researchers and data artists. Hosted at University of Utrecht.
• EUROVIS 2023 (June 12-16): The 25th edition of this conference will be hosted by Leipzig University.
• Config (June 21-22): Figma’s global design conference, live from San Francisco.

Learning resources

• Introduction to data wrangling and analysis in JavaScript: A free course spread over four sessions (April 19, 20, 26, 27) and taught by the Observable team.
• Radial Family Trees in Tableau: A tutorial to create a customizable radial Family Tree.
• How I Created a Data Visualization With Zero Coding Skills, Thanks to ChatGPT: A step-by-step guide on creating dataviz, from data sourcing to visualisation design implementation.