Tapestry: A Different Kind of Conference on Storytelling with Data

The Tapestry conference was started to give people interested in storytelling with data a place to discuss their work. Not limited to academics, the conference is geared toward journalists as well as people working for nonprofit organizations, the government, and others. Both at the 2013 and 2014 conferences themselves and afterward through the videos of the talks and via other channels, interesting recurring themes have included how data is represented in news graphics and the balance between being interesting and sticking to good visualization practice.