#VizRisk Challenge webinar: Making map-based data visualizations
Ever look at interactive maps and data visualizations and wonder, “How did they do that?” Here’s your chance to get behind-the-scenes into the studio of Lo Benichou, expert digital storyteller and data journalist at Mapbox.
Follow along a step-by-step tour on how to move from raw datasets to a polished, interactive visualization. This is a practical discussion of what it takes - from data cleaning, to user-centered design, to code, to avoiding pitfalls when putting data onto maps. Lo will demonstrate building a data visualization from scratch with Mapbox GL JS, but the larger principles and process covered in the webinar are applicable to a wide set of data visualization tools.
This webinar is presented as a resource to participants of the 2019 #VizRisk Challenge but is open to all. The webinar will also be recorded and made available as a video resource. Lasting one hour, it will take place at 1:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
#VizRisk is a four-part challenge to explore how maps and visualization techniques can help citizens and governments better understand and use data on natural hazards, exposure, and vulnerability. The challenge runs May 15 - July 15, 2019 and is open to participants around the world - learn more here and sign up for challenge updates.
Speaker
Lo is an interactive developer and brand advocate on the Mapbox Marketing team in San Francisco. They work on storytelling collaborations with external partners, write technical guides to mapping and cartography, and support journalists and impactful data visualizations. They 3 maps and graphics. Before Mapbox, Lo was a frontend engineer at WIRED and a visual journalist and interactive developer for numerous media outlets like Youth Radio, NPR, KQED and more.
Agenda
- 5 minutes - #VizRisk Challenge overview
- 45 minutes - Presentation of Lo’s step-by-step process
- 10 minutes - Audience Q&A