Hosted by Warwick Q-Step Centre, this is a one-day conference-style event where participants will have the opportunity to hear from expert speakers on the theme of 'data visualisation'.

Please see below for confirmed speakers. The exact timings of the programme are to be confirmed but the start and finish times will be 9:30 - 16:00.

Experts will give presentations on various data visualisation-related topics. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion at the end of each session.

The confirmed speakers are:

• John Burn-Murdoch (Data Journalist at the Financial Times)

John Burn-Murdoch is a Senior Data Visualisation Journalist & Baseline Columnist at the Financial Times. As part of the FT’s interactive news team, John works alongside developers and designers to produce a mix of long-term data-driven projects and same-day interactive news stories. Having previously worked as a data journalist at The Guardian and Which?, John is also a Visiting Lecturer at City University, where he teaches a postgraduate data journalism module.

• Dr Cath Sleeman (Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta)

Dr Cath Sleeman is the Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta. She works on issues related to education and the creative economy. Her primary focus is on communicating insights from big data by creating data visualisations. Prior to Nesta, Cath was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, completing a PhD in Economics. She has also worked for two years as a UK Economist at Morgan Stanley and for four years as a Senior Economic Analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

• Ella Worsdale (Head of Information at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Ella Worsdale has been working at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest Community and Mental Health services providers in the UK, for over 13 years and has progressed from Information Analyst to Head of Information. Ella discovered Tableau (a data visualisation tool) over three years ago and immediately visioned a new informatics tool for a changing NHS Trust. Ella has since implemented Tableau across the Trust to over 700 clinical and corporate leads. Tableau implementation is now regarded as one of the most important shifts in culture in the Trust; true evidence based practice.

• Loup Cellard (Researcher/Information Designer) University of Warwick

Loup Cellard is a Designer and PhD student at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Warwick University, UK). Loup worked as a data visualisation designer at Medialab Sciences-Po (Paris, FR) and at the Digital Humanities Lab of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne). The aim of his PhD is to understand how digital technologies and design cultures order the enactment of transparency in society.

• Dr James Tripp (Academic Technologist) University of Warwick

Dr James Tripp is an Academic Technologist at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick. He works with a variety of programming languages in manipulating and visualising data, developing innovative workshops and maintaining linux systems. James' PhD training is in cognitive science and he maintains a passion for programming, data analysis, visualisation and the adoption of interesting open source technologies.

Programme for the day (exact timings to be confirmed):

09.30 – Registration and Coffee

10.00 – Session 1: 'Data visualisation in the journalism sector' (John Burn-Murdoch) SPEAKER CONFIRMED

11.00 – Session 2: 'Data visualisation in practice' (Dr Cath Sleeman) SPEAKER CONFIRMED

12.00 – Lunch

13.00 – Session 3: 'Engaging healthcare clinicians in data' (Ella Worsdale) SPEAKER CONFIRMED

14.00 – Session 4: 'Mapping scientific affinities through temporal networks' (Loup Cellard) SPEAKER CONFIRMED

15.00 – Session 5: 'Open source visualisation: a tale of tools' (James Tripp) SPEAKER CONFIRMED

16:00 – Refreshments and Networking

The event is free to attend, complementary refreshments and lunch will be provided.