Outlier
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Jun 11–13, 2025
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 500 attendees2023 · source
- Tickets
- $149–$8996 prices, 2025
- Sponsorship
- $5,000–$20,0003 packages, 2025
- Sponsors
- 5 in 2025▲ +67% vs 2024 (3)
- Program freshness
- 99#8 of 143 · 0% reruns
- Similar conferences
- Strata Data Conference, posit::conf, TMLS
- Organizer
- Data Visualization Society
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- datavisualizationsociety.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube
- Typical place
- 3 cities
- Topics
- —
The Data Visualization Society's annual conference (public call for speakers, unconferences, lightning talks). Outlier 2021 and 2022 ('Outlier Online') were virtual-only; 2023 Porto, 2024 Chicago and 2025 Coral Gables (Miami) were hybrid; Outlier 2026 (June 23-26) was fully virtual. Online-only years are not recorded as editions. The site outlierconf.com now redirects to the DVS Outlier page. X account is the conference's own; LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube are the organizer's (DVS).
Speakers it attracts
The 129 people who spoke at Outlier in 2023–2025, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Alberto Cairo · University of MiamiKeynoted 2 other conferences: PyData, Budapest BI Forum
- John Burn-Murdochkeynote here · Financial TimesKeynoted 2 other conferences: posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf), EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)
- Nick DesbaratsKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 4: Data Innovation Summit, Tableau Conference, MLCon (ML Conference)…
- Nadieh Bremerkeynote here · Visual CinnamonKeynoted 1 other conference: PyData
- Martynas JočysSpoke at 3 other conferences: Power BI Gebruikersdagen, Budapest BI Forum, DATA:Scotland
- Rutuja PawarSpoke at 2 other conferences: Power BI Next Step, DataGrillen
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11–13, 2025 | Outlier 2025 | Coral Gables, United States | — | 5 | 40 | |
| Jun 12–14, 2024 | Outlier 2024 | Chicago, United States | — | 3 | 49 | |
| May 3–5, 2023 | Outlier 2023 | Porto, Portugal | 500 | 8 | 53 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 3 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Strata Data Conference0.05
- posit::conf0.05
- TMLS0.03
- EARL0.03
- Airflow Summit0.02
4 Cluster: Posit · RStudio · Appsilon crowd →
Sponsors over the years
Top 15 of 15 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Community
- Other / unspecified