Yahoo Finance Data visualisation: A two-part bootcamp
This online workshop is part of our new, exciting range of digital masterclasses that we are offering. In this live online workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage in real time with our brilliant course tutors, as well as other participants – with additional pre and post-course support from our learning team. To celebrate the launch, we are offering a very limited supply of introductory early bird tickets for each event, discounted up to 40% – once they’re gone, they’re gone!
Whether you’re working on a presentation, a website or teaching materials, the fastest way of telling a story with data is to visualise it. How can you identify datasets and use them to tell your story concisely and beautifully?
This intensive two-day bootcamp, led by Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost from specialist data visualisation agency Add Two Digital, is an innovative mix of lecture-style presentations, interactive group exercises and expert feedback, as well as activities between sessions to motivate you to skill-up further and faster, equipping you with the necessary tools for creating memorable static and interactive infographics.
You will learn how to find data, make your visualisation and refine your work - while receiving intimate feedback from two industry leaders. Between sessions, you will be given further reading materials and exercises to complete, allowing you the unique ability to test your knowledge and come to the second workshop armed with the confidence and skills to put your learnings into action.
This highly practical course is for anyone who is looking to vastly improve their beginner knowledge of infographics, to tell stories using complex information with simplicity and elegance.
Course content
What makes a striking visualisation? The four tenets of finding data, designing a story, making your visualisation and refining your work through testing and feedback
Dramatising your story using layout, hierarchy, colour, shape, line and typeface
Course exercises: finding stories in data, examining how data might be presented for specific audiences, wireframing visual stories
Homework: a unique learning opportunity to flex the knowledge muscles you’ll have been working on during the first session, some of which Adam and Tobias will walk through
Post-course supplementary resources and useful tools
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 10am (BST).
Tutor profiles
Adam Frost was formerly head of data visualisation at the Guardian’s digital agency. He is now content director at Add Two, an agency specialising in data visualisation. His work has appeared on the Guardian, the New Statesman, Buzzfeed and elsewhere. Adam has also produced infographics and interactives for a range of public and private sector clients including the Department for Education, Google and Unilever.
Tobias Sturt was head of creative at the Guardian’s digital agency and is now creative director of Add Two. He has been working in digital storytelling for almost two decades using all kinds of media – from web to TV, games and infographics.
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 10am (BST).
Details
Dates: Monday 17 – Tuesday 18 August 2020
Times: 10am-1pm (BST)
Price: Early bird discount price of £180 (plus £7.80 booking fee); standard price of £225 (plus £7.80 booking fee)
Capacity: 30
This masterclass is available globally. If you are joining us from outside the United Kingdom, please use this time zone converter to check your local live streaming time.
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