From the festival's website:

"The way art, interaction, and information interact and overlap is evolving. Access to data and tools continues to enter new realms. What data is — is also changing; It’s a social media feed, it’s a physical sensor, it’s a house plant, a novel, it’s open access to oceans of digitized archives and more and more APIs. What can be done with all this data and what cannot be done? With the Eyeo Festival, artists, designers and coders build and bend technology and give users a glimpse into what’s possible, into what’s next.

The Eyeo Festival brings together the most intriguing and exciting people in these arenas today. It starts with a day of pre-festival workshops and the Code+ed Summit. That same night, the festival kicks off with keynotes and a mixer. Then it’s three days of inspirational talks, demos, and labs and plenty of opportunities to connect with people whose extraordinary creations are pushing the envelope".

The speaker list includes well-known figures in the data visualisation field such as: Ben Fry, Fernanda Viégas, Moritz Stefaner, Martin Wattenberg and others.

For more information on the festival and on the registration procedure, please check the Eyeo 2013 website.

Alberto Cairo will present The Insightful Art, an exploration of the convergence of news infographics, data visualization and storytelling. This workshop begins with describing a conceptual framework that ties together all areas related to the visual display of information. Then, it proceeds to describe how to design efficient storytelling graphical displays from the bottom up, beginning with how to decide what graphic form is more appropriate, what structure to use, and how to combine words with visuals.

Naomi B. Robbins will be teaching the following workshop, Communicating Data Clearly, which describes how to draw clear, concise, accurate graphs that are easier to understand than many of the graphs one sees today. The tutorial emphasizes how to avoid common mistakes that produce confusing or even misleading graphs.

For more information and a detailed schedule, check the workshop’s flyer.

Participants need to bring their laptops, ideas, and also database samples, when possible. After presentations, they will be invited to form teams to work on data projects, which they will need to complete before the end of the hackathon.

For more information (in French), you can visit the event's website and Facebook page.

The conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany, on 17-21 June. In parallel, five workshops will be offered to the attendees, including EuroVA 2013, the fourth international Eurovis workshop on visual analytics held in Europe (17-18 June); the EuroRV³, the EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization (17-18 June); and VAMP, Visual Analytics using Multidimensional Projections (19 June). A detailed programme of the symposium will published at a later date.

For additional information, updates, and registration, check EuroVis’ website.

This year, the Data Journalism Awards has two new jury members (Simon Rogers and Liliana Bounegru), a new category (Data journalism website), and a new prize (The Public Choice).

The Data Journalism Awards 2013 call for applications has closed and the shortlisted applicants have been announced at the Perugia International Journalism Festival.

More information on the awards ceremony can be found on GEN's conference website.

Here's a snippet of the event description from xCoAx's website:

"The development of computational tools and media has been radically transforming the landscape for the practice of design, the arts and numerous cultural manifestations. Recognizing this, xCoAxis designed as a multi-disciplinary and nomadic enquiry on arts, computers, computation, communication and the elusive x factor that connects them all.

xCoAx is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of new and profitable synergies. It is an event exploring the frontiers of digital arts with the participation of a diverse confluence of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians, that will focus on the relations between what can and cannot be computed, what can and cannot be communicated, what is beautiful and how humans and computational systems intersect in the development of new directions in aesthetics."

For more information, programme updates, and registration, visit the conference website.

Activate is the Guardian's platform for innovators working across all sectors which are using these tools to change the world.

From the event's website: 

"From economics to politics and beyond, the internet and its associated technologies are fundamentally transforming and reshaping the world. 

This year, [the Guardian] has assembled a multi-disciplinary programme of presentations, debates and lightning pitches to discuss questions such as:

• To what extent is technology serving human needs?
• Can open government data really save the world? 
• How will the next phase of the web be funded?"

Of special interest for data journalism practitioners is the panel debate 'How Open Data is Changing the World', with Kenneth Cukier, data editor, the Economist, and T.H. Schee, co-founder and CEO, Fertta Communications (more speakers to be announced).

For more information, updates and registration, visit the Activate website.

From the event's website:

"The two previous conferences, which took place at the University of Leeds, UK in 2009 and at the Open University, Milton Keynes UK in 2011, demonstrated that visual methods and (audio)visual practices are proliferating. The ubiquity of camera/video capabilities in mobile devices makes visual 'documentation' of events, an any-time, anywhere, activity. Therefore, this year’s conference will focus on visual methods in these mediated environments and the opportunities and challenges they pose for connecting diverse worlds, looking at what happens when visual methods are used in different ways, in different spaces, and the unpredictable effects that these methods can sometimes produce."

Attendees can also profit from pre-conference workshops and masterclasses, as well as exhibitions, tours, installations and screenings. Of interest data journalists, the conference proposes a workshop on the first day, on The Functional Art: Introduction to Information Graphics and Data Visualisation. Additional information about the programme will be published at a later date.

For updates and registration, visit the conference's website.

Here is a snippet from the event description:

"2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Big Data aims to bring together academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results in Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering. [...]

The current focus is to advance the core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from large, diverse, distributed and heterogeneous data sets so as to: accelerate the progress of scientific discovery and innovation; lead to new fields of inquiry that would not otherwise be possible; encourage the development of new data analytic tools and algorithms; facilitate scalable, accessible, and sustainable data infrastructure; increase understanding of human and social processes and interactions; and promote economic growth and improved health and quality of life. The new knowledge, tools, practices, and infrastructures produced will enable breakthrough discoveries and innovation in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, education, and national security.

[The conference aims therefore to propose a] long-term strategy to address various big data challenges, which include advances in core techniques and technologies; big data infrastructure projects in various science communities; and a comprehensive integrative program to support collaborations of multi-disciplinary teams and communities to make advances in the complex grand challenge science, biomedical research, and engineering problems of a computational- and data-intensive world."

In addition to the conference sessions, attendees can also participate in workshops, symposia, and tutorials. A full programme is yet to be published. For more information, updates, and registration, visit the conference website.

From the event's website:

"DataWeek 2013 Conference + Festival is the second-annual 6-day data-centric event in downtown San Francisco.

[...] Each day of DataWeek has a different business and technology focus ranging from the Saturday / Sunday hackathon activities, the Monday / Tuesday technical workshops, and the Wednesday / Thursday conference & expo. One pass gets attendees into all official events of the DataWeek Conference + Festival!

[This year’s event will focus on Big Intelligence and Analytics.] Big Intelligence and Analytics is how data is used to revolutionize business decisions, economic policies, and personal life. In an age of "big data" the DataWeek 2013 Conference will focus on how analytics and intelligence can make data actionable. This includes the technologies behind data science, data visualization, customer & business intelligence, and data analyst tools."

For more information, programme updates, and registration, visit DataWeek's webpage.