Join Information is Beautiful Founder and TED speaker, David McCandless as he presents live, sharing high quality visuals (naturally!) to explain techniques and creative processes which lead ‘beyond the bar chart’

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

This is our usual full day workshop split into 2 x three hour sessions over two days:

TUE 11TH AND WED 12TH MAR 2024

PST 09:00 - 12:00
CDT 11:00 - 14:00
EST 12:00 - 15:00
UTC 16:00 - 19:00
UK (BST) 17:00 - 20:00
EU 18:00 - 21:00

We can offer group discount for teams and organisation of 6 or more. Contact us for more details.

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ABOUT THIS COURSE

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.

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Format

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

Attendees will break into virtual breakout rooms to do creative exercises alongside solo work.

Content

In this 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 for 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 you come away with?

Everyone leaves with their own data-visuals created on the day, a copy of the slide deck, plus extra materials for follow-up learning - and access to a unique creative tool. 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.

» Some testimonials from past attendees

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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

Please do bring paper / pens and expect some fun collaboration in small groups. 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 refreshments

The workshop is split into two sessions of 3 hours with a break mid-way.  On the second day, there will be an informal hang out space with David online.

Discount tickets for lower income countries
We also offer discount tickets for those in lower-income countries. See a list of nations at the very bottom of this page ⬇️. These tickets are released 2 weeks before the event so stay tuned to our social channels or newsletter to catch the announcement.

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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 Ticket Tailor 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 £25 / $30 USD / €30 EUR admin fee to cover our time for manual payment.

Discounts

At each event we offer a limited number of discount places. Students, educators, solo freelancers, 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 these tickets go fast!

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 TicketTailor and claim your refund - it gets processed automatically  up to 30 days after request, usually earlier.

Cancellation six or fewer days before the workshop results in 0% refund.

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.

» Some testimonials from past attendees

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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.

Note: Lower-income tickets go on sale 2 weeks before the event date. Follow us on social to see the notifications.

* Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Argentina 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