Leeds, United Kingdom
Nikolaos Vasileiadis
Front-end Web Developer (UI/UX)
NUX Leeds – Mon 29th July 2019 – The Design of Time
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- Leeds, United Kingdom
About the Meetup
The next NUX Leeds event is taking place on Monday 29th July at Platform, New Station St, Leeds LS1 4JB.
NUX Leeds events are sponsored by DXW Digital, Hippo Digital and Ideasmiths.
Join us from 6:00pm for food, drinks and networking. Talk starts at 6:30pm.
This month we welcome Andy Kirk who’ll be talking all about…
The Design of Time
In data visualisation, the most compelling demonstration of storytelling is surely the representation of time series data. But what are the different techniques for doing this?
In this talk, Leeds based data visualisation specialist Andy Kirk will navigate through the spectrum of creative ways to visualise time series data. Examining everything from timelines, sequences, radial displays, geo-temporal and cartesian methods, you’ll learn about the classics and the contemporaries, developing an increased appreciation for the myriad options to consider for your storytelling challenges.
About Andy
Andy Kirk is a UK-based data visualisation specialist: A visualisation architect, design consultant, training provider, lecturer, author, speaker, researcher, and editor of the award-winning website, visualisingdata.com. Since becoming a freelance professional in 2011, Andy has delivered over 260 public and private training events across 26 countries. Recent clients include Spotify, Telefónica, Google, EU Council, and CERN. He is the author of three books, with the most recent published in July 2019 by Sage and titled ‘Visualising Data: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (Second Edition)’. He also provides data visualisation services to the Arsenal F.C. performance team.
Running order
6:00 – 6:30 Free pizza, beer, soft drinks & refreshment6:30 – 7:30 Andy’s talk and discussion
7:30 – 8:00 Open discussion and networking
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