Exploring and visualising data with Vega-Lite

This month we'll be learning how to explore and visualise data using a tool called Vega-Lite.

Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics: you tell it about your data, and which parts of it should be visualised, and it figures out all the axes, legends, and scales needed. This makes it a fairly simple but very powerful way of producing almost any data graphic, but it can also be used for visually exploring data you're working with. There are some examples of the kinds of charts that can be produced with Vega-Lite here. Visualisations can be exported as static graphics or embedded within a webpage for those that require interactivity.

In this session we'll be following an introductory tutorial to using Vega-Lite, followed by one focusing on how we can use it as an exploratory tool. If we have time we'll look at making maps with Vega-Lite too.

All of our events are suitable for beginners, and no programming experience is required. Bring a laptop along as this a practical, hands-on workshop. Please also sign up for a Dropbox account if you don't already have one so you can edit the shared doc we'll be using during the event.

Schedule
7:00 🚪 Doors open
7:30 🗣 Show and tell
7:40 💻 Tutorial
9:00 🍺 Drinks at the George

If you can't make the main event, you're also welcome to just join us in the pub from 9!

What is Journocoders? We are a community and monthly meetup for journalists and other people in the media who want to learn technical skills for use in their reporting -- and meet likeminded others.

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