This document introduces an upcoming special session on innovations in interactive data visualization. The session will explore new tools for managing attention in an information-rich world, using visualization to explore complex analyses and communicate findings to others. Several speakers will illustrate opportunities in visualization, highlight challenges, and suggest how to get started creating visualizations, with the goal of helping link data, tools, methods, and outputs in the current data revolution.

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Innovations in interactive visualisation
Introduction to the special session
Juan Mateos-Garcia [@JMateosGarcia]
European Meeting of Applied Evolutionary Economists
5th June 2019
Brighton

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New data New tools
New methods
New outputs?
Basalla (1988)

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Tools for managing our attention in an information-rich world (Simon 1968, 1987)

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Exploration
Exploring the outputs of complex analyses [link]

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Communication
Communicating findings to policymakers and the public [link]

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A subject for analysis
A fast changing technology that deserves to be studied [link]

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Katy Börner
Creating data visualisation
literacy and building
macroscopes
Lynn Cherny
Interactive controls for AI
datasets
César Hidalgo
Democratising open data and
building visualisation tools
Illustrate opportunities, highlight challenges, suggest how to get started, get you visualising!