Alberto Cairo is Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication.

A year ago, the University of Miami launched the first Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium, a gathering intended to bring together two communities that know little about each other, but that share common tools, techniques and challenges. DH+DJ was inspired by an article by Dan Cohen, founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, who wrote: “I’ve increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are kindred spirits.”

The first edition of DH+DJ was a success, attracting professionals not only from journalism and the humanities, but also from science fields, business analytics, etc. The feedback we received was excellent, and it highlighted the caliber of the speakers and the opportunities for conversation between people from many different backgrounds during coffee and lunch breaks. The best ideas often arise in casual intersections between professional and academic fields.

That’s why we decided to repeat the experience this year. The 2017 edition will take place again at the University of Miami’s Newman Alumni Center between Sept. 14-16. Registration is open.

This year we are trying to make the symposium bigger and even more attractive, so the list of speakers is longer. The keynote speakers are Lynn Cherny, a popular data scientist and visualization designer; Steve Duenes, head of graphics at The New York Times; and Deb Verhoeven, professor of media and communication at Deakin University in suburban Melbourne, Australia, and director of the Humanities Networked Infrastructure project.

The speaker list also includes Mona Chalabi, data editor at Guardian US; Rumman Chowdhury, head of Accenture’s Global Strategic team; Paolo Ciuccarelli, director of the Density Design Research Lab at Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Dan Gillmor, professor at Arizona State University; Lena Groeger, investigative journalist and developer at ProPublica; Aron Pilhofer, the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University; Simon Rogers, data editor at  Google; Safiya Noble, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Thomas Padilla, humanities data curator at the University of California, Santa Barbara, among others.

The schedule will be available soon, and will include a mix of talks (on Thursday and Friday,) workshops (on Saturday morning), and short presentations. All talks and workshops will be tailored in ways that will appeal to professionals from any background—journalists, humanists or scientists. The topics will include data visualization, effective communication, the pitfalls of data and statistics, the ethics of algorithms and artificial intelligence, the threat of fake news and bad information in general, and the challenges of building multidisciplinary teams in any field.

The DH+DJ Symposium is sponsored by Knight Foundation, Google News Lab, Microsoft, the Council for Library and Information, and several University of Miami units: the School of Communication, the Center for Computational Science, the Richter Library, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

To sign up for the second DH+DJ Symposium, visit http://dhdjmiami.com

Note: The symposium has a flat registration rate of $99, and all attendees need to make their own travel and hotel arrangements. The website of the symposium has several recommendations for hotels that are close to the venue. Students and professionals may apply for a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews travel scholarship, which might cover part of the travel costs.

Contact Alberto Cairo via [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @albertocairo.