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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We're very pleased to post the final speaker list and workshops for OpenVis Conf 2018 in Paris, May 14-16. See us at <a href="http://www.openvisconf.com/#speakers" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">OpenVisConf
2018.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999">A two-day conference about data visualization on the Open Web.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">This educational, open source conference combines academic speakers on focused topics (not paper presentations), along with practitioners from data journalism,
design, consulting, and R&D Labs. Our program this year includes 2 speakers from Google Brain on using ML/AI with visualization (Ian Johnson and Shan Carter), data journalists from New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, ProPublica; and data
vis researchers Matt Kay, Benjamin Bach, Miriah Meyer, Steve Franconeri, Jo Wood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Our workshops, available separately (you can register even if you don't attend the conference), include <strong id="m_-8366063995159849585yiv8249490259yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520497907928_194142"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Intro
to D3.js, D3 with React, Flourish SDK, satellite image retrieval and processing, Observable, Mapbox GL, WebVR and A-Frame, Bokeh for streaming data, designing visualizations, MapD's big data query solution, Vega-Lite, Qlik's picasso.js.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We're keeping a reduced price for PhD students (and will probably have a volunteer program again this year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Please join us! And find us on Twitter at
<a href="https://twitter.com/OpenVisConf">@OpenVisConf</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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