Contributor(s): Dr Federica Fragapane, Dr Marta Foresti, Dr Francesca Panero | The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to various needs, and with differing levels of experimentation. It will focus on the visual languages used to shape information and stories and delve into how visual words in data visualizations can be alive and sometimes political.Featured image (used in source code with watermark added): Photo by Luke Chesser via Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/graphs-of-performance-analytics-on-a-laptop-screen-JKUTrJ4vK00