Truth & Beauty

There is an incredible hidden infrastructure of ecosystems right beneath our feet: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Together with [Enrico Bertini](https://enrico.bertini.io), I appeared in a special two-part episode of Andy Kirk's [Explore Explain](https://visualisingdata.com/2026/03/explore-explain-s6e8-moritz-stefaner-enrico-bertini-part-2/) series.

[INGRAPHICS](https://schwochow.shop/products/ingraphics-magazine) is a „magazine for visual thinkers“ — and I was kindly invited to contribute a double spread.

As invited keynote speaker for the [VISCOMM workshop](https://www.viscomm.io/) at [IEEE VIS conference](https://ieeevis.org/), I talked about current trends in data visualization, my design approach, and how our profession is changing in the recent wave of

This visual puts 50 years of neuroscience research on the map — by analyzing nearly 350’000 research publications and extracting salient keywords.

At the 11th [Öffentliches Gestalten](https://oeffentlichesgestalten.de/) meetup on "Visualising data", hosted by [CityLAB Berlin](https://www.citylab-berlin.org/en/start/) and [DigitalService des Bundes](https://digitalservice.bund.de/en), I shared more r…

There's a method to the madness.

Jon Schwabish and I [chat about my work](https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-278-exploring-the-evolution-of-data-visualization-with-moritz-stefaner/) and I reflect on my journey in the field — the Data Stories podcast, my shift from bespoke data visuali…

Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025

I was invited by [Kiel Life Science](https://www.bosch-lab.de/2025/02/learning-about-data-visualization-from-truth-beauty-operator-moritz-stefaner/) to speak at their New Year's Reception at the Zoological Museum Kiel, where around 75 guests gathered to g…