Exciting upcoming exhibition at LJMU 'Data as a Story'

“Data as a Story” is an upcoming exhibition at LJMU celebrating the range and diversity of research data. This exhibition explores how data — in its many forms — can be represented creatively through formats like posters, podcasts, zines, music, photographs, drawings, telescope images, graphs, charts, samples, and more. It highlights the potential of data to tell compelling stories and spark curiosity.

We’re inviting researchers to reflect on the richness of their data — from a striking satellite image to a beautifully messy lab notebook page, or a reimagined chart that reveals a narrative. The aim is to reimagine data as something expressive, engaging, and accessible.

Supported by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), the exhibition promotes open access and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data practices. It seeks to raise awareness of data creation, curation, and reuse, and to make research more visible and inclusive.