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    Moritz Stefaner

    WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn22 OCT · 10:20 · Théâtre de Namur — Grande Salle

    Biography

    As the one and only "truth and beauty operator," Moritz Stefaner has spent two decades chasing the perfect shape for information — and occasionally catching it. From his studio in northern Germany, he helps clients like the WHO, the German government, OECD, Salesforce, and Deutsche Bahn find insights and beauty in complex data, drawing on a background in cognitive science and interface design.

    He has won more Information is Beautiful Awards than is strictly reasonable, exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, and SIGGRAPH, and co-hosts the Data Stories podcast.

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    About the talk

    Beyond the bar chart

    Most data today reaches us through default charts and cookie-cutter dashboard templates: big number tiles with a sparkline, a bar chart with a dropdown, a map with a color ramp — or a chat response from your favorite AI agent. They are cheap, fast and mostly forgettable. 

    Moritz Stefaner has spent two decades making the other kind: visualizations shaped around one specific question, one dataset, one audience. Using projects like global maps of underground fungal networks with SPUN, climate security work for the German Foreign Office and the official German vaccination dashboard, he shows what a custom visual can do that a template cannot: make a phenomenon truly legible for the first time, make it memorable, make it something people return to. 

    Along the way he makes the case for what a dedicated visualization design team brings to a project, and why it matters more, not less, now that charts can be generated in seconds.

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