London Data Visualisation

​If you feel inspired by the visual journalism of the New York Times, winners of the Information is Beautiful awards or the wonderfully crafted graphics of great communicators like Mona Chalabi and Nadieh Bremer, join London’s community for coders, artists, analysts, journalists and designers searching for beauty and clarity in data.

​​This month we are hosted by Geovation in Farringdon.

​​Arrive from 6.30pm

​​Talks start at 7pm

​Ahmad Barclay - Palestine Open Maps

Ahmad Barclay is an architect, UX designer and coder who presently leads the digital content innovation team at the Office for National Statistics. Previously, he led award winning infographics and visual storytelling projects as a founding partner with Visualizing Impact, and initiated Palestine Open Maps, an open data project supported by Mozilla and Creative Commons.

​Soha Elghany - Ethical Data Vis

​Soha Elghany is a data visualisation designer who specialises in visualising social impact data in a way that humanises the people behind the numbers. She is currently a lead in corporate banking. Previously, she's co-built a pro bono department in her previous company to help charities with their data problems. She's worked in consultancy for 4 years, and before that, her background was in mental health.

​​We will move onto a pub afterwards. There will be plenty of time to chat too. We want you to come away enabled to bring more creativity next time you are working with data!