Presentations & Talks – Kristen Sosulski

Kristen regularly delivers talks on her work related to data visualization, innovation in higher education, and online education.

Upcoming talks

Spring 2019: NYAAPOR American Associate for Public Opinion: Visualizing Data

Details TBA

Fall 2019: Data Science Go Conference: 2019 – Speaker – Visualizing Data

Recent talks

November 29, 2018: Scalable Pedagogical Design for Online Courses

November 26, 2018: Data Visualization Meetup at Stack Overflow
The Business Case for Data Visualization

October 11, 2018: Women in Machine Learning & Data Science: Data Visualization

October 10, 2018: NYU Stern Author Series: Data Visualization Made Simple

March 29, 2017: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs

Creating Effective Visuals
Do you use PowerPoint slides to augment your lecture? This workshop is workshop geared toward creating stellar PowerPoint presentations to support your teaching and research.

March 22, 2017: W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs Open House @ NYU Stern

Building Online Learning Tools with Global Partners: Interview with Professor Tensie Whelan.

March 1, 2017: Social Media Week 2017 @ NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs

3 Ways to Think About Learning in 2017: Culture, Marketing, and Revenue

Learning is a modern day entrepreneurial survival tool, especially given today’s fast-paced and ever-changing landscape. It can go beyond simply company culture and staying on top of the latest tech and social media trends. Entrepreneurs should also integrate learning into their social media marketing strategy and leverage it as a revenue stream.

November 15, 2016: Plotly’s PlotCom Conference

The Future of Business Intelligence: Data Visualization

How can data visualization be used as a platform to reveal intelligent insights and help business analysts make timely decisions? In this talk, Kristen Sosulski will discuss the opportunities for personalized, location aware, context relevant, and platform independent information visualizations as a toolkit for business analysts.

November 9, 2016: Tableau for Data Visualization
Guest lecture for Professor Anindya Ghose’s Digital Analytics course

September 22, 2016: NYU Talks: TECH & DATA
Moderated by: Jan Plass and Raghu Sundaram Panelists: Julia Lane, Kristen Sosulski, Arun Sundararajan

Technology is changing our lives at a breathtaking pace, from social media and big data analytics to smart devices, sensors, crowdsourcing, and robotics. Even though segments of the public have embraced these developments enthusiastically, others view them with trepidation and concern. This panel considers the human side of technology and the data it generates: how various advances are changing the way we work, learn, teach, share, and feel. With backgrounds in education, economics, and analytics, some of NYU’s leading thinkers in technology and data address how current innovation allow us to inhabit, to see, and to make sense of the world in new ways.

July 29, 2016: IBM – Social Champions Discussions

Engaged Storytelling with Information Visualization

June 24, 2016: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB): Teaching Excellence Seminar

Teaching possibilities: New modalities for teaching and learning

May 19, 2016: Teachers College Columbia University

Online Best Practices for Teaching

May 16, 2016: Digital Analytics Association

Engaged Storytelling with Information Visualization: Techniques for Audience and Presenter Driven Stories
How can we use information visualization to tell engaging stories? This presentation will illustrate examples and techniques for audience-driven and presenter-driven storytelling using information visualization.

April 28, 2016: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab

Interactive Video
In this workshop, participants will learn how to create videos that allow students to participate in the video lecture by responding to questions and discussion prompts.

April 26, 2016 @ 1pm EST: Tableau

Teaching with Tableau: Showing insights and telling data driven stories
In this 45-minute webinar a method for teaching students to tell data-driven stories with data visualizations will be presented. This includes 1) storytelling best practices 2) techniques for helping humans see the key takeaways from visuals and 3) the use of software to support the presentation of data into visual form 4) and how to design of a course to support data driven storytelling. Watch the on-demand webinar.

April 14, 2016: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab

Creating Videos for the Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom model of teaching has exploded. As professors take on this new mode of teaching, learn more about what it is, and how to make it work for you. In this workshop, participants will learn how to create online video lectures to allow more time for students centered learning in the classroom.

April 2, 2016: Teachers College, Columbia University – Full Steam Ahead Conference

Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Author Series
Online technologies have transformed the ways in which we think about traditional models of teaching and learning. This panel brings together authors who have written about online education to discuss the the considerations and challenges of developing and delivering online programs.

March 31, 2016: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab

March 7, 2016: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab

Blended Learning
This workshop will provide faculty with a clearly outlined set of online course design standards and a step-by-step development process to build a blended online course. This workshop will focus on developing online lesson. The content focuses on practical application informed by theory. Participants are encouraged to bring their course syllabus to the workshop. Read the blog post.

March 3, 2016: NYAAPOR American Associate for Public Opinion

Data Visualization for Communication and Presentation
An informative workshop, led by a dynamic expert in the field, on the best ways to make your data tell a story. What you will learn: What is data visualization? How do you tell stories with data? Which display works best for your message, data, and audience? How are charts and graphs designed to enhance readability, communication, and interpretation? Read the blog post.

February 25, 2016: Social Media Week NYC

From Immersive Video To Animated Selfies, How We Will Express Ourselves In 2016
Technology changes at a rapid pace; however, as human beings, our innate need to be social and communicate our identity hasn’t changed much over time. Before written language, oral stories and images were used to convey information – connecting with one another and sharing is built into our DNA. Today we have more ways to express ourselves than ever before: text, photos, music, video, illustrations, animations, graphics, MEMEs, GIFs, selfies, animated selfies, emoticons, emojis, bitmojis, 360/immersive video, streaming video, podcasts, and more!

February 23, 2016: NYU Stern W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab

Teaching with Technology
There are many ways professors can use technology effectively in their teaching practice. Learn 6 ways to use technology in the classroom. Read the blog post.

Past presentations & talks

Sosulski, K. (2016, February). Overview of the W.R. Berkley Innovation Lab. Meeting of the Stern Teaching Effectiveness Program.
Sosulski, K. (2016, February). Progressive pedagogy panel. Panel held at Bank Street College of Education.
Sosulski, K. (2016, January). Talk presented at NYU Stern’s adjunct faculty orientation.
Sosulski, K. (2015, December). Telling Stories with Data. Workshop presented at the National Economic Research Associates, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, October). A strategic and experiential approach to MBA education enabled by online learning. Paper presented at the meeting of the Online Learning Consortium Orlando, FL.
Sosulski, K. (2015, September). Guidelines for selecting data displays. Workshop presented at the National Economic Research Associates, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, September). Adaptability. Presentation at NYU Stern Langone Lab –MBA Orientation, NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, September). Introduction to teaching with technology. Workshop
presented at the New Faculty Orientation, NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, July). Using data visualizations in presentations. Workshop presented at
the National Economic Research Associates, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, July). Design principles for charts and graphs. Workshop presented at the New Faculty Orientation, NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, May). Teaching practice session. Workshop presented to Ph.D program at NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). A multiple site case study of three educational technology graduate programs and their responses to technological change. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). Data visualization. Lecture presented at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). An introduction to online teaching and learning. Workshop presented at the NYU Stern Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). Moderator. Technology Innovation in Higher Education event at NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). Introduction to data visualization. Lecture presented at the MBA Bootcamp at NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, April). Designing online learning. Workshop presented at NYU Stern’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, New York, NY.
Sosulski , K. (2015, April). Speaker. The Sustained Excellence Awards, NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. & Chernoff, H (2015, March). A study of the Panama Canal and its impact on
the global supply chain: A case study and a course. Paper presented at the
meeting of the National Business and Economics Society, Panama City, Panama
Sosulski, K. (2015, February). Social Media Bootcamp. Workshop presented at the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, February). Creating Effective Visuals. Workshop presented at NYU Stern’s
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. New York, NY.
Chernoff, H. & Sosulski, K. (2015, February). Business Analytics Inside Out. Short course
presented at NYU Stern Short Course, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2015, January). Introduction to the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. In S. Stein (Chair), NYU Stern Adjunct Faculty Orientation. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2014, December). Introduction to designing and building data visualizations. In J. Zahavi (Chair), Data mining for business analytics. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. & Chernoff, H. (2014, November). An innovative approach to teaching operations management through experiential and online learning. Paper presented at the INFORMS annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Sosulski, K. & Chernoff, H. (2014, September). Operations Management Outside of the Classroom: An experiential approach to teaching operations management in an authentic social context. Poster session presented at the NYU Faculty Committee on the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education at NYU Conference: Beyond the Year of the MOOC, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2014, September). Reflecting on our own practice: Action research in business education. Poster session presented at the NYU Stern’s IOMS research fest, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2014, July). Teaching with technology. In J. S. Lehman (Chair), NYU Shanghai Leadership Retreat. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Ingersoll, G., Mamer, J., & Sosulski, K. (2014, May). Flipping the classroom. In A. Lippencott (Chair), Teaching Improvement Committee Panel. Symposium conducted at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA.
Sosulski, K. (2014, May). Introduction to designing and building data visualizations. In C. Perlich (Chair), Data mining for business analytics. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2014, February). Social media strategies for startups. In C. Franklin (Chair), NYU Stern’s Berkley Center’s Entrepreneurs Challenge. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2013, December). Introduction to data visualization. In J. Attenberg (Chair), Practical Data Science. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Ghose, A., Levina, N. & Sosulski, K. (2013, November). Mobile, data, and open innovation. In Daly, H. (Chair), The Future of Business. Symposium conducted at NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2013, November). Introduction to data visualization. In F. Provost (Chair), Introduction to data science. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2012, December). Introduction to designing and building data visualizations. In F. Provost (Chair), Practical Data Science. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern,New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2012, October). Social media and education. Business Access Media Conference. Lecture conducted from IESE Business School, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. & Bongiovanni, T. (2012, October). The savvy online student: Setting up students up for success in online classes and programs. Paper presented at the meeting of the Sloan-c Consortium, Orlando, Florida.
Sosulski, K. (2012, April). Social media and business. NYU Stern’s Building Bridges: From high school to B-school program. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Damodaran, A. & Sosulski, K (2012, April). Open and online education. NYU Stern Faculty seminar. Lecture conducted from NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2012, March). Investing in Panama. In G. Quintero-Barretto (Chair), Encuentro Internacional de Negocios. Lecture conducted from Universidad Latina de Panama, Panama City, Panama.
Allen, A., Sosulski, K., & Georgieva, M. (2012, February). Classroom capture technologies. Poster session presented at the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence’s Teaching with Technology Conference, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2011, November). Effective models for teaching and learning using technology. NYU Stern Faculty Seminar. Lecture conducted at NYU Stern, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2011, October). Faculty assessment and feedback plan: Faculty and student accountability in the learning process. Best Practices Session. Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, FL.
Greenstein, H., Sosulski, K., de Carvalho, A, & Krochmal, M. (2011, May). Teaching social media when the rules are always changing. Lecture conducted at the meeting of BlogWorld and NewMedia Expo. New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2011, February). Social commerce – The evolution of purchase process. Panel moderated at the annual meeting of New York Social Media Week. New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2010, April). Engaged media: A colloquium on working as a socially engaged media professional. Lecture conducted at the Department of Digital Communications and Media Studies at NYU School of Professional Studies, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2010, April). Harnessing the power of digital communities. eLearning special Interest group of the American Society for Training and Development. Lecture conducted from New York, NY.
Sosulski, K, & Goss, S. (2010, February). Blogging to foster collaboration between faculty And students for academic research. Teaching with Technology Conference. Lecture conducted from NYU’s Center for Teaching Excellence, New York, NY
Sosulski, K, & Jafari, A. (2009, June). The use of Web 2.0 and integrated technologies in distance education. Paper presented at Campus Technology 16^th Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Sosulski, K., McGhee, T. & Pollack, K. (2008, October). Hybrid learning. Presentation at the UCEA Mid-Atlantic Conference, Willington, DE.
Sosulski, K. (2008, July). Distance education: Approaches and techniques. In G. Natriello (Chair), EdLab Seminar. Lecture conducted from Teachers y College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Davidson, A., & Sosulski, K. (2007, October). A model for online student community building at the program level. Paper presented at the annual meeting of E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Quebec City, Canada.
Sosulski, K. (2007, October). A case study of three educational technology graduate programs and their responses to technological change. Paper presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Anaheim, CA.
Sosulski, K. (2007, June). A historical analysis of the representation of computers in educational technology programs. Paper presented at the ED-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada.
Sosulski, K. (2007, December). Interactive multimedia in education. In S. Goss (chair), Hypermedia and Education. Lecture conducted from Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K., & Goss, S. (2007, November). Blogging to foster collaboration between faculty and students for academic research. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, FL.
Sosulski, K., & Goss, S. (2007). Blogs and other online technologies and resources: Faculty and student collaboration for academic research in a blended online environment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of ED-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada. Received AACE award for best paper.
Sosulski, K., & Goss, S. (2007, June). NYU Online. EdLab Seminar. Lecture conducted from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2006, June). Multimedia in education. In S. Goss (chair), Hypermedia and Education. Lectured conducted from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Otter, K., & Sosulski, K. (2005, October). Comparing programs: A holistic review of two successful (but different) institutions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, FL.
Sosulski, K., & Clarkson, A. (2005, June). Best practices in teaching online students online. Paper presented at the annual meeting of ED-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada.
Sosulski, K. (2005, June). Contextually authentic activities in journalism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of ED-Media: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada.
Sosulski, K. (2005, November). 21st Century Times, 21st Century Technology, 21st Century Teaching. Keynote speaker. Lecture conducted from Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2005, March). The perceptions of K-12 teachers learning computer programming and the relevance to their careers. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Phoenix, AZ.
Sosulski, K., & Engel, L. (2004, April). Providing the scaffolds for students to excerpt, describe, analyze, interpret and synthesize to form new understandings. Paper presented at the American Education Research Association San Diego, CA.
Cronin, C., & Sosulski, K. (2003, October). Using multimedia case studies. Presented at the New Media in Education Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Engel, L., & Sosulski, K. (2003, October). Creating third spaces for learning. The New Media in Education Conference. Lecture conducted from Columbia University, New York, NY.
Sosulski, K. (2002). Design research report: The Deconstructor. New York: Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.
Sosulski, K., & Bent, I. (2001, October). Delivering content for music humanities. Moving Education into the 21st Century with New Media. Lecture conducted from Columbia University, New York, NY.