This document summarizes the agenda and Q&A session from a webinar hosted by Andy Kirk and Andy Cotgreave on data visualization. The agenda included discussing the principles and purpose of data visualization, visual techniques and chart types, personal development and skills, and the current state of the data visualization field. The webinar involved Kirk and Cotgreave answering questions from participants on topics like the process of making visualizations, effective visualization design, software for creating visualizations, and developing skills in data visualization.

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Andy Kirk | Andy Cotgreave

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www.bigbookofdashboards.com
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Andy Cotgreave

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http://www.visualisingdata.com
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Andy Kirk

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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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http://tabsoft.co/timeintableau

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Question:
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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Question:
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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www.visualisingdata.com
@visualisingdata
Andy Kirk
www.bigbookofdashboards.com
@acotgreave
Andy Cotgreave

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