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Interview with Andy Kirk Part 2 - Visualisation: Art to Empower Data

Visualisation: art to empower Data Andy Kirk

This is the second part of the interview with Andy Kirk, data visualisation consultant, training provider, teacher, author, speaker, researcher and editor of the award-winning website called visualisingdata.com

Watch Fatma in conversation with Andy.

In the particular field of Data Science, we are facing a massive amount of data that is being continuously released. With this increased amount of big data, comes a flood of publications with visually unreadable and uninterpretable results.

Andy explains what his advice to authors is, so that they can publish their findings in an appealing manner and to allow understanding and reuse by the scientific community.

What is your experience in presenting data for publishing or for any other purpose?

What is your opinion on how important aesthetics is when trying to visualise data/results?

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