About this Event
Please note - THIS IS A RARE, LIVE and IN-PERSON WORKSHOP (Central London Venue) with Information is Beautiful Founder and TED speaker, David McCandless presenting live, and sharing high quality visuals (naturally!) to explain techniques and creative processes which lead ‘beyond the bar chart’
Doors open 09:30, event starts promptly at 10:00 and runs until approximately 16:00.
Afterwards there will be an informal hang out / networking space / after drinks with David if you wish to stay.
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CONTENT
How do you create effective, interesting, impactful and, above all, useful data-visualisations, charts and infographics?
What principles and practices give the best results?
How do you combine visual thinking, statistical rigour & organisational goals without compromise?
Learn through a mix of lecture & hands-on exercises
Use a concept-driven approach!
Our approach to creating graphics inverts the common practice of starting with data. Instead it focuses on developing a distinct, useful, smart question or concept to frame and ask of the data and information.
This way of working yields different and often more impactful 'human-centric' rather than 'data-centric' visualisations - leading to more beautiful, memorable, impactful results.
It also helps with the critiquing and ‘debugging’ of charts, and is tool-agnostic, useful for many outputs: presentations, interactives, data-stories, apps, marketing materials etc.
Format
This introductory level seminars are a mix of lecture & hands-on exercises with plenty of discussion.
Attendees will break into pairs and small groups to do creative exercises together, alongside solo work.
Content
In this fun intensives, attendees will directly learn:
» concepting & generation of solid, interesting ideas ripe for visualization
» creation, selection & execution of appropriate & effective charts
» designing and beautifying graphs & diagrams
» essential principles for data-storytelling
and be broadly introduced to:
» how to use visualisation as a lens for communicating of ideas & stories
» the many new methods and approaches for visualising data
» the best current tools alongside optimal choices & practices
Useful for
» Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics
» Understanding data journalism and story-telling with data
» Words and ideas people looking to translate concepts into design language
» Visual / design thinkers wanting to expand approaches to include data
» Data / code practitioners looking to improve aesthetics & conceptual prowess
What will I come away with?
Everyone leaves with their own data-visuals created on the day, a copy of the slide deck, plus extra materials for follow-up learning.
» Some testimonials from past attendees
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About David McCandless
David is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer. His best-selling infographic-books Information Is Beautiful (HarperCollins 2009), Knowledge is Beautiful (2014) and Beautiful News (2021) are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data.
His information design work has appeared in hundreds of publications internationally and online including The Guardian, Wired, and the BBC. He has worked as a creative consultant on visualisation projects for Apple, Google, and Microsoft and also for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And trained teams at SalesForce, Delta, Twitter and many others.
About the workshop
Format
The workshop is given in a presentation-style format with plenty of interaction, Q&A and breakout exercises.
Equipment
Please do bring paper / pens and expect some fun collaboration in groups. You may also want to bring data or problems you are currently working with, so you can see if applying the Information Is Beautiful lens can help you find a solution or expression of your data.
Timings and refreshments
The workshop will start at 10:00am; there will be two breaks of approximately 15 -20 minutes and a one-hour lunchbreak. Lunch is not provided but breakfast and break time coffees, teas, pastries and snacks will be available. The event will end at approximately 16:00 when there will be an informal hangout with David in a nearby watering hole.
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Terms and conditions
Payment
Up to a maximum of six tickets may be purchased per transaction. For purchases above that number please contact us. You will be supplied with an automatic receipt. Payment can be made with all major credit cards through the Eventbrite system. If you need to pay via bank transfer, by credit card over the phone, or via invoice please email us - we charge an additional GBP 50 to cover our time in these aspects of manual payment.
Discounts
At each event we offer a limited number of discount places. Students, educators, unemployed/those on benefits, people who work for NGOs / charities / educational orgs, journalists, disabled, and military veterans may pay discounted rates, while supplies last. Note: people who work for commercial organisations of any size above one employee pay full price. Book early as stocks are limited. Depending on availability we sometimes offer small discounts for group bookings of 6 and above - contact us for details.
Refunds and transfers
If you need to cancel your place we can offer a 100% refund up to seven days before the event start date. You can log into Eventbrite and claim your refund - it gets processed automatically by Eventbrite up to 30 days after request, sometimes earlier.
Cancellation six or fewer days before the workshop results in 0% refund.
Please allow up to 30 days for a refund to reach your account (usually sooner). If you wish to transfer your place to another name or to a future workshop, please contact us up to 24 hours before the event start date. Less than 24 hours before the event we cannot transfer your place.
Cancellations
In the event that we have to cancel the event, we will give you as much notice as possible and offer you the choice of either a full refund or an alternative event date. Our liability is limited to the participant registration fee.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
London Transport Museum, London Transport Museum, London, United Kingdom
GBP 75.00 to GBP 300.00