Data Book Club: Ben Jones - Avoiding Data Pitfalls

Our next Data Club is part virtual, part real, we'll be meeting at the usual venue and will be joined virtually by Ben Jones in Seattle talking about his new book 'Avoiding Data Pitfalls'

Tickets are free and available at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-book-club-ben-jones-avoiding-data-pitfalls-tickets-89642805043

The book aims to help you avoid data blunders and create truly useful visualisations Avoiding Data Pitfalls is a reputation-saving handbook for those who work with data, designed to help you avoid the all-too-common blunders that occur in data analysis, visualisation, and presentation.

We'll also hear (in real life) from The Data School about their experience with data pitfalls as part of their Data School journey

Entry is free but unlike previous events doesn't include a copy of the speaker's book, we will however have a couple of copies of the book to give away on the evening.

About Ben

BEN JONES is the Founder and CEO of Data Literacy, LLC, a company that's on a mission to help people speak the language of data. He's the author of Communicating Data with Tableau and 17 Key Traits of Data Literacy, and he also teaches data visualisation at the University of Washington's Continuum College. With over 20 years of experience working as a mechanical engineer, a continuous improvement project leader and mentor, and a business intelligence marketer, Ben has learned a great deal about what to do—and what not to do—when working with data