TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

数据可视化如何既是助手，也是陷阱？

赵鹿鸣

数据是一种强大的工具，它既能拓展我们的视野，也可能误导我们的判断。在这场演讲中，赵鹿鸣以他七年来在数据可视化领域的创作实践为基础，分享了数据如何帮助我们更好地理解世界，也提醒我们要带着批判性去阅读和使用数据。他通过多个生动的案例讲述数据可视化的多重价值：不仅是新闻表达的一种方式，更是知识存储、社区动员，甚至是个体疗愈的媒介。

他邀请大家不要只是被动接受信息，而是主动参与其中，成为数据的创作者、质询者和讲述者。通过视觉的方式，我们每个人都可以参与构建一个更加有理解力和连接感的社会。

赵鹿鸣，数据可视化设计师。他用数据讲述故事、连接社会，也让人们在复杂的信息中找到意义。他的作品横跨新闻、艺术与技术，被全球媒体广泛引用。在他眼中，数据可视化不仅是表达信息的技术，更是一种兼具创造力与公共性的语言。他坚信，这门跨学科的实践值得一生探索。

How Is Data Visualization Both a Help and a Trap?

Luming Zhao

Data has the power to broaden our understanding—but it can also mislead us. In this talk, Luming Zhao shares what he’s learned from seven years of designing data stories: how visualizing data can make the world more legible, but also how it demands critical thinking. Through a wide range of examples, he explores how data visualization goes beyond the news—how it can store knowledge, activate communities, and even support personal healing.

He challenges the audience not to just consume data but to engage with it—create it, question it, and use it to tell meaningful stories. In a time when public discourse often feels fragmented, data visualization can help rebuild the connections between people and ideas.

Luming Zhao is a data visual storyteller. He turns information into insight, and visuals into bridges between people and the world around them. His work lives at the crossroads of journalism, design, and technology, and has been featured by global media outlets. To Luming, data visualization isn’t just a way to show facts—it’s a creative, civic, and human practice, one that he’s committed to exploring for a lifetime.