InfoD: Conference DD4D - Paris - 18-20 June 2009 - Programme

          **  Conference DD4D  **

          Data designed for decisions:
          enhancing social, economic and environmental progress.

          Paris: 18-20 June 2009

          A joint IIID and OECD conference


Website: http://www.dd4d.net/


Registration: http://www.dd4d.net/Registration.aspx
(Early Bird rates for all online bookings until the end of May)

Programme:

** Thursday 18 June: Policy, community and tools

08:45   Workshop:
- Regina Rowland: Co-creating visual maps for transcultural understanding #1

09:30 	Opening: Enrico Giovannini, Peter Simlinger
- Keynote: Patricia Wright: 'What, if ...? Tools to help the public
   make difficult decisions'
- Pamela Flattau: 'Measuring changes in public safety and security
   in the USA'
- Stefan Schwarzer: 'Innovative approaches to visualizing statistical
   data at national and regional levels'

11:40
- Jorge Frascara: 'Data, information, significance, decisions and
   traffic injuries'
- Phil Berczuk: 'The urban dynamic model =AD Dynamic use of data to
   aid policy development and decision making
- Mikael Jern: 'Collaborative web-enabled geovisual analytics =AD
   applied to OECD regional data
- Nic Marks: 'National accounts report January 2009 =AD highly
   interactive web-site to make the data come more alive'

13:10 	Lunch with guided exhibition
- Yvonne Ericsson: 'Visualization of statistics'

14:15 	Panel session:
- Mark Palmer: 'From data to results =AD improving organizational
   performance through better visibility of key metrics'
- Elizabeth Pastor: 'Visual senseMaking for changeMaking'
- Carlo Amati: 'Operational tools for strategic decisions on
   public investments
- Leslie MacNeil: 'Ethnography in visual communication design
   for public health'
- Virginia Tiradentes Souto: 'Decisions, ideas and context clouds'

15:40
- Karen Cheng: 'Information design for analysis and advocacy'
- Steve Killelea: 'Communicating the message of the global peace index'
- Seth Flaxman: 'Visualizing Global Cities =AD a dynamic tool for
   exploring indices of cities'

17:00 	Panel session:
- Helen Joyce: 'Data-driven online journalism'
- Christophe Aguiton: 'The Urbanmobs project'
- Bruce Robertson: 'How designed data influences decisions'
- Pavle Sicherl: 'The distance measure offers novel perception of
   world disparities and of implementation of millennium development goals'
- David Skopec: 'oVIS =AD Real time visualisation of extended
   databases of social indicators (EUSI/DIDI)'



** Friday 19 June: Organisation, simplification, visualisation

08:45   Workshop:
- Regina Rowland: Co-creating visual maps for transcultural understanding #2

09:30
- Hans Rosling: 'How to increase innovation in the use of statistics'
- Robert E. Horn: 'Can visual language help us with some of
   our social messes (aka 'wicked problems')?'
- Julian Jenkins: 'Form data & measures to meaningful decisions =AD
   designing useful information'
- Emmanuel d'Harcourt: 'Cleaning up the house =AD a large NGO tries
   to unify its health indicators'

11:30 	Panel Session:
- Paul Kahn: 'Creating patterns that connect - drawing overview maps
   of compex data networks'
- Carol Briam: 'Latch unleashed =AD using organisational principles
   to improve data graphics'
- Giuseppe Attoma: '750.000 travellers a day or how to fit lots of
   busy people in the same space'
- Nigel Holmes: 'A place for humour and wit in information graphics'
- Per Mollerup: 'Functional simplicity in data presentations'

12:30 	Lunch with guided exhibition
- Angela Norwood: 'Building visual narrative structures through
   information design education'

13:30 	Panel Session:
- Arlene Birt: 'Background stories =AD visual communication for sustainabil=
ity'
- Kirti K. Trivedi: 'Self-generated data patterns'
- Redi Baur: 'Orientation/disorientation'
- Nicolas Naveau: 'Geocity =AD a global observer as an interaction process'
- Tingyi S. Lin: 'The visual explanation of qualitative information =AD
   a case study on fertility rates in Taiwan'

15:00
- David Sless: 'The Communication benchmarks project'
- Will Stahl-Timmins and Martin Pitt: 'NICE Graphics =AD an online, task
   based study of the use of information graphics to support decision making
   at the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence

16:30 	T42
100 tables for two, with tea and stimulating conversation with
a partner of your choice.



** Saturday 20 June: Understanding and empowerment

08:45   Workshop:
- Regina Rowland: Co-creating visual maps for transcultural understanding #3

09:30
- Christopher Burke: 'Isotype =AD representing social relationships pictori=
cally'
- Yuri Engelhardt and Raul Nino Zambrano: 'Engaging citizens with statistic=
al
   data =AD from Neurath to Gapminder'
- Leonard Verhoef: 'Data in statistics or statistics in data =AD understand=
ing
   complex numerical relations with your eyes only'
- Stephane Villard: 'Materializing electricity =AD can information design t=
hrough
   objects cause behavioural change for energy efficiency?'

11:30 Panel Session:
- Maria Gonzales de Cossio: 'Helping people achieve a higher socioeconomic
   level through information design'
- Jim Ridgway: 'DD4D4D =AD Displaying data in 4 dimensions =AD for deconstr=
uction,
   studying students working with multivariate data to deconstruct newspaper
   accounts'
- Aaron Marcus: 'Cruss-cultural user experience design and
   information visualisation'
- Juana Sanchez: 'Message in data'

13:30 Conference close


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