Data storytelling, which communicates insights through visualizations and compelling narratives, is growing in demand as a futureproof skill not easily replaced by AI. Join the Digital Scholarship Hub for an introductory workshop exploring the demand, practice, and artistry of data storytelling and data physicalization. Led by Andrew Hahn, Associate Director for Data & Storytelling at the UW-Madison Division of Enrollment Management, this event will delve into the history and practice of representing quantitative information with texture and physical media, finding compelling data stories in complex datasets, and making your own data artifact. No experience necessary.

It's easy to think of data as something that lives in spreadsheets, but it rarely starts—or ends—there. Join four UW–Madison faculty who work where the digital meets the physical: digitizing thousand-year-old manuscripts, building knowledge graphs for regional food systems, studying how scientific visuals move public opinion, and uncovering the information embedded in everyday objects. Together, they explore what the relationship between data and the physical world reveal about both.

The Digital Scholarship Hub @UW is a place where people come together to explore how technology can help us understand the world and improve it. It brings librarians, researchers, students, artists, and community members into one shared space to learn, create, and solve problems using digital tools.