Free online event
How to create your own data visualisation
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023
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You’ll learn how to:
- Understand the importance of data visualisation in the public service
- Recognise common pitfalls to avoid when visualising data
- Identify best practices for creating visualisations
Speakers
Check out the tools used by fellow public servants and share your own here: What tools do you use for creating data visualisations?
Speaker resources
- Steven Hubbard, Ph.D's presentation
- Dr Phebe Bonilla's presentation
- Rebeca Pop's presentation
- You can find Rebeca Pop on Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also learn more about Vizlogue's data visualization and data storytelling workshops here.A few FREE resources are available here:Data visualization checklistExcel chart templates (including slopegraphs, dumbbells, and lollipops!)
- Color-blindness simulator, a tool you can use to upload an image of your visualisation and check how it will appear for people with various types of colour blindness
- Color Brewer, a tool to pick colours for your visualisations
Apolitical resources
- Presenting Data Effectively, Premium course
- Design your own data visualisation, article by Rebeca Pop
- Presenting data: 5 tips for making your data understandable, article by Catherine Hope
- Seven tips for how public servants can create better data visualisations, article by Steven Hubbard, Ph.D
Community resources
Data is critical for work in governments all across the world, to provide better insight into what citizens need and to improve and track outcomes.
But without a way of presenting this data clearly, this data won’t be useful to either your fellow colleagues or the public.
Watch this free online workshop to learn why data visualisation is so important, and discover some tips and tools for creating your own data visualisation.
Who should watch:
This workshop is for public servants and policymakers at all levels who want to learn more about data visualisation, why it’s important, and how to create their own.
Interested in how Apolitical can support you and your organisation? Learn about collaborating with us.
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Speakers
Rebeca Pop
Founder of Vizlogue
United States
Dr Phebe Bonilla
Research Communicator at Research Retold
United Kingdom
Steven Hubbard
Senior Data Scientist, the American Immigration Council
United States
Rebeca Pop, founder of Vizlogue and an expert in data visualisation and data storytelling. To date, she has delivered presentations to over 3,200 participants all around the world. Her workshops are grounded in a deep understanding of adult learning strategies and combine hands-on exercises with feedback sessions and real-life examples. Rebeca also teaches data visualisation and storytelling at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern University. She has almost a decade of experience working in marketing science and analytics at top media agencies, across a variety of industries. She enjoys writing and has published thought leadership articles on Everviz.com, Nightingale (the journal of the Data Visualization Society), and United Nations’ blog. One of her most popular articles has even been translated into Italian. When she's not working on a data visualisation project, Rebeca enjoys biking, hiking, and traveling. Fun fact: to date, she's visited over 25 countries.
Dr Phebe Bonilla, postdoc at the Danish Technical University, works on greenhouse gas reductions from landfills. She is also a facilitator at the Transformation Labs initiative at the University of Copenhagen to accelerate the implementation of research insights into decision-making. Combining her passion for sustainability and research communication, she works as Research Communicator at Research Retold, where she takes advantage of her research background and interest in design and communication to collaborate with researchers to make science accessible and actionable.
Steven Hubbard, Ph.D. is Senior Data Scientist at the American Immigration Council where he conducts research and data visualization projects related to immigration. Most recently, he was a Zolberg Fellow at The New School and International Rescue Committee where he conducted research on Syrian refugees living in Jordan. With a deep interest in photography, he recognizes the importance of visualization to communicate complex data problems and facilitate data driven decision making. Hubbard has over 20 years of experience in college teaching, research, and administration at New York University, The University of Iowa, and Hamline University. Dr. Hubbard started his professional career as a city planner for local governments in rural southwest Iowa.
