Tech Events by Dublin DataViz

with Stefan Müller (Associate Professor, University College Dublin)

Dublin Dataviz closes 2026 with Stefan Müller, Associate Professor at University College Dublin and creator of the Irish Polling Indicator. His talk covers the datasets behind Irish politics, how the Polling Indicator is built, validated and handed to newsrooms, how to construct time series from newspaper archives, and how to turn poll reports into open-source data. He'll also look at how accurate the aggregation model has been in every general election from 1989 to 2024, and compare tools for building interactive news graphics. Thursday 10 December, 6.30pm to 8.30pm at the Digital Depot in The Digital Hub, Dublin 8. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a real public-facing data pipeline, end to end, from the person who built it. Best for data scientists, analysts and anyone shipping charts to a general audience.

Dublin Dataviz follows its Dublin Tech Week workshop with an unconference at The Digital Hub on Thomas Street. There is no fixed agenda and no speaker list. Attendees set the sessions on the night and the format runs on what the room collectively knows rather than one person presenting to the rest. The group is explicit that this is a deliberate break from its usual talk-plus-Q&A evening and that the normal format returns afterwards. Places are limited and there is a EUR 5 charge, which goes entirely on pizza. Drinks in Arthur's afterwards. Why go: unconferences work when the attendees are good, and this group's are - analysts, designers and researchers who argue about chart choices for a living. Best for anyone who makes charts other people have to act on.

Dublin DataViz goes hands-on for Dublin Tech Week: a workshop evening at the Digital Hub where you create visualisations with real Irish datasets — no coding experience needed, €5 all-in for the workshop and pizza, followed by the inevitable post-session at Arthur's.