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Data Visualisation Webinar
Data Visualisation Webinar
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In partnership with the Financial Times, Sponge and Skill Pill organised Data Visualisation Webinar, where Alan Smith, OBE, FT's Head of Data Visualisation, and Gerry Griffin, Skill Pill founder and CEO, discussed five best practices for better storytelling with data.
The goal of anyone with design skills to create graphs and charts should always be to tell better stories using data: present data in a way which is engaging, understandable and above all - clear.
In partnership with the Financial Times, Sponge and Skill Pill organised Data Visualisation Webinar, where Alan Smith, OBE, FT's Head of Data Visualisation, and Gerry Griffin, Skill Pill founder and CEO, discussed five best practices for better storytelling with data.
Alan, also known as the 'Chart Doctor', and Gerry take us through some fundamentals of data visualization, explaining key components of the Financial Times Visual Vocabulary. This includes the difference between clarity and simplicity, Hans Rosling’s combining of data relationships and some common pitfalls to avoid when one communicates with data.