Finals week showcase

Week 11

Monday March 17th, 2025

A person in a cape that reads 'code hero' who looks like they are flying through the air while typing on a computer while saying 'I’m doing a think all on my own!' The coder’s arms and legs have ropes attached to two hot air balloons lifting them up, with labels on the balloons including 'teachers', 'bloggers', 'friends', 'developers'. Below the code hero, several people carry a trampoline with labels 'support' and 'community' that will catch them if they fall.

Artwork by Allison Horst.

Data viz showcase prep

Let’s celebrate all of our hard work with a data viz showcase! This is an opportunity to share some of your successes, challenges, and resulting products with your peers. Please be sure to review / complete the following ahead of time:

  1. Find your showcase time slot on this schedule. You will have three minutes to tell us about your data viz (plus an extra buffer minute to transition between presenters). We will reserve time for two longer breaks as well.

  2. Review the presentation requirements, as detailed in HW #4. Please be sure to address all prompts during your presentation.

  3. Add your presentation link to the schedule. The format is super flexible, so long as Sam can access it via a URL on her computer. You may use your published blog post, create Google slides, etc. Please add your URL by 10:00am on Monday 3/17.

Expand the reach of your work

Proud of your work, and eager to share with a broader audience? Consider these opportunities:

  1. Get featured on Bren’s social media accounts: Bren’s Director of Communications and Marketing, AL Black-Goldin, will attend our showcase and is looking for some great viz to share out on Bren’s socials. The Bren School network and following is quite large, and this is a fun opportunity to get your work in front of potential employers and collaborators.

  2. Submit your work to UCSB’s 2025 Art of Science competition: This annual event aims to,

“capture the imagination and share the beauty of science through photographs and images that describe some aspect of research; whether it be spectroscopic images of a new material, data from a series of simulations, photos of a device or instrument, data visualization, or some other aspect of research captured visually.”

and makes specific mention of “thoughtful, innovative, and artistic visual data stories such as infographics capable of effectively and aesthetically communicating research through visual narratives”

Submissions are due by April 14, 2025. Learn more at https://art-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/.