We invite you to join us in Paris! --- Lane Harrison Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~ltharrison/ ----- Forwarded Message ----- Hello, We're very pleased to post the final speaker list and workshops for OpenVis Conf 2018 in Paris, May 14-16. See us at OpenVisConf 2018. <http://www.openvisconf.com/#speakers> OpenVisConf 2018 A two-day conference about data visualization on the Open Web. <http://www.openvisconf.com/#speakers> This educational, open source conference combines academic speakers on focused topics (not paper presentations), along with practitioners from data journalism, design, consulting, and R&D Labs. Our program this year includes 2 speakers from Google Brain on using ML/AI with visualization (Ian Johnson and Shan Carter), data journalists from New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, ProPublica; and data vis researchers Matt Kay, Benjamin Bach, Miriah Meyer, Steve Franconeri, Jo Wood. Our workshops, available separately (you can register even if you don't attend the conference), include *Intro to D3.js, D3 with React, Flourish SDK, satellite image retrieval and processing, Observable, Mapbox GL, WebVR and A-Frame, Bokeh for streaming data, designing visualizations, MapD's big data query solution, Vega-Lite, Qlik's picasso.js.* We're keeping a reduced price for PhD students (and will probably have a volunteer program again this year). Please join us! And find us on Twitter at @OpenVisConf. Lynn Cherny emlyon business school