Description The proliferation of new sources of data opens up the possibility for designers to develop new approaches towards the creation of interactive artifacts. While design practice has been driven by a user-centered paradigm, which aims at providing people with solutions to their everyday issues, it now examines data as a new material that can be extracted, manipulated and visualized to better inform users about the world. In this presentation, Pierrick Thébault will draw upon his past research and projects to highlight the differences between data-centric, application-centric and artifact-centric approaches and to discuss the challenges and opportunities of designing with data.

Description Data changes the way we see our world. We can learn more from ourselves and nature surrounding us than ever before in human history. For this reason, we need new tools to reach and translate this information into a universal language.

Description Multilayer relationships among entities and information about entities must be accompanied by the means to analyze, visualize and obtain insights from such data. We will briefly discuss the challenges to represent and visualize multilayer networks, and we will present muxViz (http://muxviz.net), an open-source software that contains a collection of algorithms for the analysis of multilayer networks, which are an important way to represent a large variety of complex systems throughout science and engineering. We demonstrate the ability of muxViz to analyse and interactively visualize multilayer data using empirical social, genetic, neuronal and transportation networks.

Description The SIRIS Lab is the research and innovation division of SIRIS Academic, a research driven consulting company specialised in organisational diagnosis, strategy and change management. In this talk we will make a short summary of what is visualisation and will go through some interesting examples that go beyond typical network analysis. We will also show our approaches for visualising data from understanding of university rankings and science production. Finally, we will explain how visualisations are transforming the way we make consultancy.