Background
Data visualization is changing. Think tank communications teams increasingly work with bigger datasets, interactive tools, and dashboards that update continuously, and as AI widens the kinds of data researchers can work with, the products built to communicate that data are becoming more technically complex. This session focuses on a central question: what does good data visualization look like now, and what do think tank comms teams need to know? Discussions will center around knowing when a chart is enough and when an interactive product is the better choice, how to communicate data that isn't simply numerical, what sits behind a dashboard that needs to keep working as the data changes, and how policymakers, journalists, and other audiences can use the visualizations we build.
The Event
The WonkComms Breakfast Club brings together the APRI communications team presentation on communications and data perspectives from the Africa Policy Research Institute, including work with complex policy datasets, interactive formats, and the infrastructure behind them.
