How Charts Work Understand and explain data with confidence

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Understanding Data

Communicating with data effectively is an increasingly important skill, yet is often overlooked.

This session covers some of the essentials including understanding your audience, choosing appropriate chart types, and making best use of text and colour to produce engaging content.

Alan Smith OBE is the Head of Visual Data Journalism at the Financial Times, and offers unique insight into how to present your data in a unique, effective, visually striking way.

How Charts Work Understand and explain data with confidence

By Alan Smith - Alan Smith, Head of Visual and Data Journalism, Financial Times
Alan leads an interdisciplinary team of journalists across the FT's newsrooms in London, New York and Hong Kong. An experienced presenter, Alan has lectured extensively on how to communicate with data. His TEDx talk "Why you should love statistics" was a TED.com featured talk in 2017. Before he joined the FT, Alan was Head of Digital Content at the UK Office for National Statistics, where he founded its award-winning data visualisation centre. He was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to official statistics.