The VisHub is an interdisciplinary research lab and hub for teaching, collaboration, and outreach around data visualization hosted by the Institute for Design Informatics and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. We research creative methods for interactive, exploratory and explanatory data visualizations across domains and environments. Our goal is to make data visualization and data analytics understandable by everyone.

News

• Jun 2026: Sarah Dunn won a Best Paper Award at DIS 2026 for The Trials of Designing Communication Aids for Clinical Trials
• Jun 2026: Dushani Perera presented the DIS 2026 paper Supporting Engagement and Collaborative Exploration with Household Consumption Practices through a Data Sculpture
• Jun 2026: Jenny Long presented the DRS 2026 paper Build & Connect: Designing a Constructive, Participatory Physicalization Activity & Toolkit for Community Reflection
• Jun 2026: Dorsey Kaufmann and Andrea Kocsis presented the DRS 2026 paper Designing Digital Ghosts: Creative Access to Web Archives
• Jun 2026: Jenny Long, Jinrui Wang, Tomas Vancisin, Dorsey Kaufmann, and Uta Hinrichs presented their work at the Design Informatics FAB26 Showcase

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Projects

Grasping Data

UK Co-Benefit Atlas

Visualizations in Peace & Conflict

Living Repository

Vistorian

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Events

Visualizing Climate Change

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Understanding LLM behaviors

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Data visualisation applications in storytelling

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Interfaces and Grammars

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Visualizing Climate Change

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You're doing it wrong

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Coaching Program

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Visualizing Temporal Dynamics

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Humanitarian Vis

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COVID-19

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Extra dimensional XR

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Network Visualization Tutorial

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Maps and Time

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Science Visualization

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Building a COVID App

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Drawing Data

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Making an Unnecessary Visualization

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Data Visualization Tools

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Data Changes Everything

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Impact of Technology

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Future Data Visualization

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Finding What to Read

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Well-Informed Data Science

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Visualizing Biological Data

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Immersion, Multimodality, Experiences

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Vision and Speech

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Human-made Visualization

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Futuristic Visual Storytelling

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Creative People Need Data

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Visualizing City Data

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Social Network Analysis

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Data Physicalization

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Visualization, Creativity, Deception

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Scottish Atlas of Variation

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Visualization in R and Shiny

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Going Places

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Graphy, RAWGraphs, Datawrapper

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Inaugural Meetup

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Hands-on Sketching

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