Andy Kirk and Andy Cotgreave answer all your data questions

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Andy Kirk

5. The Data Debate
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1. The Principles and Purpose of Data Visualization
2. Visual techniques and chart types
3. Personal Development and Skills
4. The State of the #dataviz Nation
5. Rapid Fire qus
Agenda

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1. The Principles and Purpose of Data Visualization

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Question:
Can you please explain the
process of making a
visualization?
Zaki Abdurrahman Koesoemahardja

10. What influences an effective visualisation?
Motives, purpose, audience, format, time, skills,
data shape/size, data condition, curiosities…
How do influences effect your visualisation design
choices?
Data representation, interactivity, annotation,
colour, composition

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Question:
Based on your experience what is an effective
visualization?
Zaki Abdurrahman Koesoemahardja

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Visits to my blog, www.gravyanecdote.com

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The Perils of Bubbles,
July 2016

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http://www.global-migration.info/

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21. Visualisation by Mauro Martino
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123507

22. Visualisation by Matt Stiles http://thedailyviz.com/2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthday-dailyviz

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2. Chart Types and Techniques

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Question:
What is the best way to plot spend across time based on start and end
dates and a value?
Sam Gibbons Frendo
Research Analyst, National Cancer Research Institute
How can you visualize customer attrition/churn rates?
Paul Gabb, Senior Analyst at Betway
I need to make three reports to visualize a process flow over time.
Sebastian Højlund Stensgaard

25. Visualisation by The Uphshot http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/06/upshot/how-to-know-what-donald-trump-really-cares-about-look-at-who-hes-

26. Visualisation by Ben Jones http://dataremixed.com/2014/02/visualizing-history/

27. Visualisation by Pew Research http://www.people-press.org/interactives/gop-candidate-switching/

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I would like to reproduce something similar to the
following. What software can I use?
Helen Armstrong

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3. Personal Development and Skills

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Question:
I have one day a week free for the next 6
months. By the end I would like to have as
impressive a portfolio of visualisations as
possible. Do you have any advice on how to
achieve this? David Hoskins

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https://twitter.com/datawoj/status/804346861335232512

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Image from https://twitter.com/aquigley/status/739752961920933888 and visualisation by Moritz
Stefaner et al http://blog.emoto2012.org/data-sculpture-at-we-play-expo/emoto-installation-03/

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Work by Kate McLean from http://sensorymaps.com/portfolio/glasgow/

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Question:
https://twitter.com/datawoj/status/804346861335232512

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Scottie Nell Hughes,
pro-Trump CNN Commentator,
Nov 2016 (Diane Rehm Show, WAMU)
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-11-30/how-journalists-are-rethinking-their-role-under-a-trump-presidency
“There’s no such
thing, unfortunately,
anymore, as facts”

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“Facts to one side
were seen as
opinion to another”
Scottie Nell Hughes

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The
reality
What politicians
and the media
focus on

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Andy Kirk
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Andy Cotgreave

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