The Bar Chart Club: Q4 2025
HELLO CHART MAKER!
If you make charts with data and you live in Kansas City, you're in the right place. It doesn’t matter what tool you use. It doesn’t matter what industry you work in. It doesn’t matter what stage you’re at in your career. If you make charts with data and call the KC metro area home, The Bar Chart Club is the professional networking group made just for you.
Learn more about The Bar Chart Club here.
Q4 EVENT: CHOOSE YOUR OWN DATA ADVENTURE
Here's what's coming your way at our Q4 2025 event.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
9:00-11:00am
Meadowbrook Park Clubhouse
Choose your own data adventure at our Q4 event! We will have 18-20 different tables, each with a speaker who will deliver the same presentation three times. Each presentation will have something to do with supporting professional development goals for data folks as we go into the new year. Attendees can “choose your own adventure” and attend three different presentations that will support their 2026 goals. Here are our amazing speakers and their talks!
Community
William Duncan | Kansas Data Science Consortium
Sean Miller | Learn by Doing: Accelerating Your Growth with Challenges and Community
Erin Waldron | How to Find Your Data People
Data Analysis
Keeley Gierer | Messy Data in the Real World
Alice Kohlenberg | Equity Considerations & Practices in Data Analysis
Design
Jackie Aman | Integrating Art in Data Viz: Community-Grounded Research
Kate Nielsen | Intro to Digital Accessibility (*dependent on her availability)
Marketing Data
Jess Best | Email Marketing Metrics that Matter (STOP tracking opens!)
Mary-Catherine Reinert | The Brand Metrics You’re Not Tracking — But Should Be
Professional Development
Corey Bryant | Communicating with Stakeholders
Maggie Glenski | Market Your Data Like a Pro on LinkedIn
Christopher Laubenthal | Reading between the Lines with Data Visualization Job Descriptions
Erin Sass | Design Your Best Day
Technical Skills
David Fundakowski | Introduction to Data Engineering
Shiv Malhortra | 2026 Predictions: The Next Evolution of the Modern Data Stack
TBD
WE DO THREE THINGS
New to the Bar Chart Club? Welcome! Here's what we do at our quarterly meetups.
1) Connect
We network with local chart makers like us.
2) Learn
We sharpen our data visualization skills.
3) Geek Out
We geek out a little (okay, a lot) about charts.
SAVE YOUR SPOT
RSVP here and we'll keep you up-to-date about all the event details. We can't wait to see you there!