About this Event
View map Free EventSave the date Monday, November 16, 2026 for the 9th annual VizUM Symposium. VizUM is a free annual data visualization symposium featuring speakers who are pioneers in the field, whose vision drive products and styles we see around us daily, and who forge new ground in this domain. This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, November 16, 2026 • 4:00-7:00 PM
Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Map + Directions
Speakers
Graphic Designer, Author, Theorist | EXPLANATION GRAPHICS
Born in England, Nigel Holmes studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London and then freelanced for magazines and newspapers for 12 years before coming to America in 1978 to work for Time Magazine. He became graphics director and stayed there for 16 years. Since 1994 he has run his own business, Explanation Graphics, explaining all sorts of things for a variety of clients, including Apple, CVS, The Smithsonian, and United Healthcare. He also does graphics and illustrations for publications such as The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Times.
Nigel's 11th book Let's get INFOGRAFIT: A graphic look at exercise and health was published in September 2025 by CRC Press as part of the AK Peters Visualization series. It explains how to prepare for sports and how to repair damage while participating in them. From illustrations on ancient Greek vases through modern exercise plans, the book deals with why exercise is good for you; what happens if you don't move around enough; medical and anatomical explanations of soreness and exhaustion; and the exhilaration of doing physical activity. It also includes a chapter on nutrition.
Data Editor, GOOGLE | Co-Host, THE DATA JOURNALISM PODCAST
Simon Rogers is an award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. Co-host of The Data Journalism Podcast with Alberto Cairo and author of Facts are Sacred, published by Faber & Faber around the world. He has also written a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Sigma Data Journalism Awards, taught Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, and has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Simon's latest book What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind, published in May 2026 by Penguin Random House, explores the world's biggest data set of two decades of Google searches. As an epic snapshot of our collective brain, what it reveals about us might surprise you. Brimming with insights that vary from the playful to the profound, the book delves into the momentous and the mundane secrets of what we ask when we get the chance to ask anything, offering a surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind.
Sponsors
VizUM is sponsored by the Open Visualization Academy, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the University of Miami School of Communication and Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC).
Complimentary Parking
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