Data Visualisation: Beautiful Science

Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight

Exhibition at The British Library

20 February - 26 May 2014

The Folio Society Gallery; admission free

Turning numbers into pictures that tell important stories and reveal the meaning held within is an essential part of what it means to be a scientist. Beautiful Science explores how our understanding of ourselves and our planet has evolved alongside our ability to represent, graph and map the mass data of the time.

The associated events for the exhibition are listed here

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/beautiful-science/events/index.html

Unfortunately  this event….

Andy Kirk, founder of Visualising Data will be holding his renowned Introduction to Data Visualisation course at the British Library to coincide with Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight.

…is sold out but fear not you can get to see what Andy is about by looking at his website

http://www.visualisingdata.com/

Students who came to my Visual Literacy workshop last term will already know about the King of Data visualisation  Hans Rosling Professor of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet. Edutainer & co-founder of Gapminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden · gapminder.org

Meanwhile as with everything and especially anything that is immensely visually attractive -beware of being misled!! Here is a warning article about taking care to question the veracity of infographics from John Burn-Murdoch of the Guardian