Visualizing Qualitative Data and Theory Workshop

A Workshop Sponsored by the Global Lab: Visualizing Qualitative Data and Theory Workshop
Facilitated by Elizabeth Long Lingo, WPI Business School

Do you teach qualitative methods, or are you a qualitative researcher struggling to visualize your messy data and theory in a parsimonious and compelling way?  Are you wondering what possible new best practices for visualizing qualitative data are out there? 

We write to invite you to a special workshop for faculty and graduate students focused on Visualizing Qualitative Data and Theory offered by Elizabeth Long Lingo of WPI’s Business School, as part of her 2024-25 Global Lab Fellowship.

In the first part of this 90-minute workshop, Elizabeth will present a newly developed framework that articulates common visualizing challenges and offers best practices and pragmatic solutions drawn from lived experience and the design field.  

In the second part, participants will have the opportunity to present their own and/or learn from others' work-in-progress visualizations, feedback, and constructive discussion within a small group format.  In the third part, the group will collectively brainstorm opportunities to utilize this approach within WPI’s global project curriculum.  

All participants are invited to bring their latest version of a work-in-progress visualization/figure to the workshop. (Rough sketches and early drafts are heartily welcomed!)  A paper version is best--the goal is to be able to easily share your visualization with others at a round table or around a whiteboard.  

Please respond to stuler@wpi.edu if you are planning on attending.  This is simply to help us understand how many people are likely to come.