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- Day 1 - Tuesday 17th May, 2022 Day 1
- Day 2 - Wednesday 18th May, 2022 Day 2
- Day 3 - Thursday 19th May, 2022 Day 3
Day 1 - Tuesday 17th May, 2022
• Attendee hopes and fears
• Why do we need Data Visualisations?
• A very brief history
• Data Visualisation luminaries
• Engagement / Storytelling
• Information
• Design Thinking
• Storytelling and narrative structure
• Defi ning personas/audience
• Associating words to charts
• How we navigate information
• Always bring it back to Why
• Connect to an action
Day 2 - Wednesday 18th May, 2022
• General discussion
• Q&A
• Working with data
• Understanding quality and governance
• Categorical vs. Measures
• Connecting visual and data elements
• High-level tool landscape
• Understanding visual perception
• Enhancing data with basic statistics
• Identifying basic data patterns
• Selecting from chart types
• Exploration vs. Explanation
• Focusing on insights
Day 3 - Thursday 19th May, 2022
• General discussion
• Q&A
• Design make-overs
• Gestalt principles
• Working with colour and fonts
• Humanising design
• Understanding how / when to add variety
• Understanding hierarchy
• Optimising layout
• Introduction to animation
• Designing for others
Key Speakers


Data Visualisation Evangelist
Paul Hodge is a Data Visualisation University Lecturer and Corporate Educator with a passion for exploring the intersection between data, design, and storytelling. By elevating everyone’s potential to engage, inform, and leverage design principles, Paul believes that we all have the ability to inspire people and share our insights in ways that can improve the world and make it a more interesting place to live in.
Leveraging his entrepreneurial spirit and drawing on a blend of business acumen and deep technical experience, Paul continues to work closely with C-level executive management, while bringing together business, technical and analytic teams to improve their productivity and achieve outstanding business outcomes.
A true global citizen, Paul also has a world of experience having lived and worked in the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Europe, and his native Australia.