Information Visions Lab CU Boulder Information Science

📊❤️ The Information Visions Lab is a research group led by Evan Peck in the Information Science Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.

What is does our group do? We study how data profoundly affects people’s lives—from everyday decisions about housing and healthcare to broader policies on climate change and pandemics. We believe everyone deserves the ability to see, use, and make decisions with data, empowering themselves and their communities.

Collectively, we envision a future of data communication that is accessible and equitable to all—regardless of culture, educational background, or ability to afford technology. Our research draws on information visualization tools and techniques to help diverse communities trust, create, and engage with data in meaningful ways.

Recent News

Apr 2026
Frida Mudsam’s workshop paper - From Charts to Context: An Ecological View of Visualization Literacy is presented at the ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Data Literacy in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸. See our project page
Apr 2026
Kate Davis wins the college’s William W. White Award, given to a single outstanding undergraduate in Information Science @ CU Boulder. Her work on data physicalization is covered here by the College of Communciations, Media, Design, and Information
Apr 2026
Ziptable is featured on FlowingData. Built by Evan Peck, Ziptable is a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets without uploading any data to a server. See the announcement.
Jan 2026
Evan Peck launches a new course at CU Boulder that translates the lab’s expertise into a project-based educational experience for both undergrads and grad students - Communicative Visualization: Designing Charts that Inform, Engage, and Persuade. Read the syllabus here
Jan 2026
In a multi-disciplinary collaboration led by Steve Voida’s TMI Lab, new paper published in Health Psychology: Situational awareness predicts self-management of type I diabetes in adolescents and young adults