Webinar with Q&A
Connect & Visualise
- Date
- Monday 15 December 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- The session will be in English.
- Address
- Online
For our December Connect & session, we are very pleased that Kathleen Gregory of the CWTS will be speaking to us about some of her recent research in a talk titled "Data journeys in popular science: How do data journalists use open data?"
Abstract
How do data journalists use open data in visual communication? What similarities exist with researchers’ data practices? What can researchers learn from science communicators? This talk will explore how data visualizations about climate change and COVID-19 are produced in popular science magazines, using Scientific American, an established English-language popular science magazine, as a case study. To do this, I will draw on the analytical concept of ‘data journeys’ (Leonelli, 2020) to report on a mixed methods study that centered on interviews with Scientific American staff and was supplemented by a visualization analysis of selected charts. In particular, I will discuss the affordances of open data in science communication, the role of collaborative data practices, and how the magazine works to counter misinformation and increase transparency.
This session
This Connect & session takes place online and will last one hour. After Kathleen's talk there will be time for questions and informal discussion. Everyone interested in thet topic is very welcome to join. If you are part of the Leiden University Research Data Management Community you will have received a calendar invite. If you are not on the contact list, you can register by filling out the form.
About the Connect & sessions
This event is part of the “Connect and …” series arranged by, and for, the Leiden University Research Data Management Community, on everything data management-related. The sessions take place every month at different days and times, so as to maximize access according to people’s different working hours, and are normally online. Topics and speakers are proposed by members of the Community. You can post a suggestion in the Community's MSTeams space, or write to datamanagement@library.leidenuniv.nl, if you have a topic you would like to discuss in a future meeting and the CDS team will help to make it happen.