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Who am I?

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Do only Nerds do Dataviz?*

*Betteridge's law applies (mostly)!

CW: Suicide, Illness

Pre-attentive attributes

A brief history lesson

William Playfair, 1786

Florence Nightingale, 1859

Charles Minard, 1869

1985 2013

Visualisation is everywhere

Visualisation is everywhere

Because it works!

Pradeep Kumar G

Samuel Parsons

Simon Scarr

Sonja Kuijpers

Giorgia Lupi

Neil Richards

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Kat Greenbrook

Alex Waleczek

How do you get into Data Visualisation?

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Data

Domain Design

Data

Domain Design

Data

Domain Design

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Communicating insights is a rare skill

Alex Waleczek @genetis

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