Data Is Beautiful: Learn to create impactful infographics & data-visuals

*PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN ONLINE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE VIA ZOOM*

10:00 - 16:00 Central Time USA + 30 minutes optional hang out afterwards

(Start times: 10am Central, 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 4pm UK, 5pm CST)

(You are welcome to join from anywhere in the world. We also offer discount tickets for those in lower-income countries. See a list at the very bottom of this page ⬇️)

Full pre-event info (including what to expect from the day and instructions on how to connect to our zoom room) will be emailed to all ticket holders at the time of purchase and again approximately 1 week prior to the event date.

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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?

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

These introductory-level seminars are a mix of lecture & hands-on exercises with plenty of discussion.

David will present live, screen-sharing high quality visuals (naturally!) to explain techniques and creative processes which lead ‘beyond the bar chart’

Attendees will break into virtual breakout rooms to do creative exercises, and also do solo work.

Content

In these 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 of 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 datavizzes created on the day, a copy of the slide deck presented other resources shared during the day plus a streamable video created from our seminars to enable you to re-cap the tutorials and exercises from the day for 30 days after the event.

NB The video re-play included in your post event pack was recorded and edited from previous sessions, to retain all tuition and creative exercises. For personal privacy we have removed any sections where audience participation may have occurred.

» Some testimonials from past attendees

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.

www.davidmccandless.com

About the workshop

Workshops are hosted in an online virtual meeting space with a capacity of 100 guests. There will be many opportunities to interact and ask questions via the meeting space platform.

Format

The workshop is given in a presentation-style format with plenty of interaction, Q&A and breakout exercises.

Equipment

You will need access to a laptop or computer with internet connectivity. Camera / video is optional.

Please do bring paper / pens and expect some fun collaboration in virtual breakout spaces. 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 breaks

The workshop will start at 10:00am; there will be two breaks of approximately 15 minutes and a one-hour lunchbreak. The event will end at approximately 16:00pm. All local times.

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.

List of qualifying countries for our individual lower-income discount tickets

Please note: those who work for international corporations in lower-income countries do not qualify for our discount tickets.

* Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan

* Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi

* Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Cuba

* Democratic Republic of Congo Dominican Republic Djibouti Dominica

* East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia

* Fiji

* Gabon Guyana Georgia . Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau

* Haiti Honduras

* India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ivory Coast

* Jamaica

* Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan

* Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya

* Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar

* Namibia Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria

* Oman

* Paraguay Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines

* Republic of Congo Rwanda

* Sao Tome And Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland / Eswatini

* Tajikistan Tanzania The Gambia Timor Leste Togo Tunisia Turkmenistan

* Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan

* Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam

* Yemen

* Zambia Zimbabwe