Ok, back in July, we kicked off our Viva Visualization Tour in Atlanta and it was great! Now it's Boston's turn to show the folks down south how it's done.

If you're in Boston, come meet Juice and learn about communicating better with data.

What you'll have when you leave:

• visualization best practices training around information layout and workflow, information visualization, chart selection, and styling
• networking within the Boston visualization community
• a full breakfast buffet
• opportunity to pick the Juice collective for tidbits of vizo-knowledge
• a few pieces of custom designed Juice schwag

What Juice gets out of this:

• a much needed visit to one of the country's greatest cities
• a chance to meet Boston folks who love making visual sense of data
• opportunity to talk about the stuff we're excited about with people who are actually willing to listen (besides our moms)
• a big ol' food bill

So, if this sounds like great fun to you (and who wouldn't think so), register. We don't get to Boston much, so sign up now! We can't wait to meet you.

And, for those of you who aren't in the Boston area, we're also planning a September meeting in D.C., so keep your eyes open.

What do Tableau fans and Juice fans have in common? Both sets of groupies can see Tableau and Juice together at the 2010 Tableau Customer Conference! That's right, the great folks at Tableau have very generously offered the opportunity for Juice to speak at their annual conference.

This is going to be a great conference with speakers like Stephen Few, Garr Reynolds, and Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame. Four days of great principles and practices. If you haven't registered yet, there are just a few spaces left, so get to it.

As you all know, Juice highly admires the huge advances that Tableau has made to democratize effective visual analysis and we believe Tableau is setting the new standard for packaged information analysis tools. As it turns out, Juice has fans at Tableau as well. So come join us at the Mutual Admiration Society meeting in Seattle at the end of August.

Oh yeah, if you're going to be at the conference, don't let us get out of there without introducing yourself!

One thing we really like doing here at Juice is meeting and talking with folks who are interested in the practical application of visualization techniques to make their jobs and businesses better. We know a lot of you out there feel the same. So, we're planning meet-ups in three cities over the next few months -- Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Boston. In addition to giving those of you in these areas a chance to get together in one place at the same time, it will give us a great excuse to share some data visualization knowledge that we think will benefit you and enhance your skills.

Each Juice Tour event will start with a meet-and-greet followed by a presentation focused on some basic rules for effectively communicating data - where we will provide you with some easy-to-use principles that you will walk away with, leaving you to become far more proficient at presenting your data forward no matter who your audience.

Afterwards, you will have an opportunity to meet one-on-one with Juice in free mini-problem-solving sessions where we can talk specifically about your visualization problems and offer suggestions to help you work through them.

If you're interested, register here and let us know your name, email and your location. We'd like to gauge your level of interest in the Juice Tour -- starting with Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Boston. If you're not in these areas, but are interested in the Tour, please let us know that, as well. (If these go really well, who knows, maybe we'll expand to include other cities, too.)

We look forward to hearing from you! (Oh, and did I mention, it's free?)

Have you noticed that sometimes it's hard to get your point across? Do you find you're trying to do the right thing with your information, but the organization just won't cooperate?

We think this is happening too often in the companies the Juice Community lives and works in. And we want to do something to change it.

We want to better understand if we're helping you be more effective in your workplace as an information evangelist. To make this possible, we'd like to ask (yea, even beg) you to complete a short 10 question survey about how information presentation is making progress in your company and if you feel alone or supported by the info-viz pundits out there.

But you might ask "what's in it for me?" Well, to begin with, we're going to demonstrate how to summarize qualitative survey information. You'll get some great examples of how to apply non-traditional charting styles to problems within your organization.

However, we can't do it alone; we need you to complete the survey. And if we don't get enough respondents, the results won't lend themselves to what we have planned.

So what are you waiting for? Fill out the survey here and help us help you help us. And what does Gilligan's Island have to do with information presentation? Well, you'll just have to take the survey to find out!

Update: The survey is now officially closed. Thanks to all who responded. We'll have the results out in a few days.

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