Information Visualisation and News

For our next event we are delighted to have Aleksandra Wisniewska (https://twitter.com/alekswis) from the Financial Times joining us in Dublin.

Alessandra will give a talk on information visualisation at the FT, mainly with respect to data driven investigations and stories. She will further be providing an overview of the FT's Visual vocabulary (https://github.com/ft-interactive/chart-doctor/blob/master/visual-vocabulary/Visual-vocabulary.pdf).

Aleksandra Wisniewska is an Interactive Data Journalist at the Financial Times in London, where she has been involved in many data driven investigations, and interactive visualisations. You can see examples of her work here (https://www.ft.com/aleksandra-wisniewska).

This event is brought to you in collaboration with the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies (http://www.ucd.ie/ics/).

Please come and join us in UCD for this invigorating talk.

When: Friday 31 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Where: H2.22, O'Brien Centre for Science, University College Dublin

Note 1: Space is limited for this event. Secure your place soon by RSVPing, to guarantee yourself a place in this talk.

Note 2: UCD School of Information and Communication Studies has recently launched a new Postgraduate Professional Certification programme in Data Journalism (http://bit.ly/ucddatajournalismcpd), which the Hacks/Hackers community may find interesting.