Dataviz training
program 2022
Publications Office of the EU
Training 1: Design principles for
data visualisation
Maarten Lambrechts
Introduction, Monday 7 march 2022
DATAVIZ TRAINING 1
Design principles for data visualisation
7 - 11 March 2022
Training introduction, 7 March 2022
Maarten Lambrechts
Outline
Educational approach
Graphic design?
Graphic design and data visualisation
Practicalities
q&A
EU DATAVIz training program: calendar
ecucational approach
pedagogical approach
100% remote
Asynchronous learning
MOdULeS
readings
Video lectures
Exercises & assignments
Live sessions
16 hours of training, spread over 5 working days
pedagogical approach
Live SessioNs
Training introduction (Monday morning)
Feedback & discussions (Friday Afternoon)
Questions & answers (Tuesday and Thursday)
online discussion document for Q&A
Training closure (Friday afternoon)
Graphic design?
The art of designing pictures and text for books, magazines, advertising, etc.
The art of designing pictures and text for books, magazines, advertising, etc.
The art or profession of using design elements (such as typography and images) to convey information or create an effect
Graphic design is the profession and academic discipline whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives.
Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. They use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to create visual compositions.
Old Wikipedia article
Graphic designers produce visual representations of ideas to convey information by using design elements like typography, layout and composition
graphic design and
data visualisation
"Explanatory" data visualisation
"Exploratory" data visualisation
GraphicData visualisation designers produce visual representations ofideasdata to convey information by using design elements like typography, layout and composition
practicalities
16 hours of study time, to be spread over this week
Suggested order of modules...
... but some have prerequisite models, to be completed first
Live sessions have a fixed timing:
| This introduction live session | Now |
| Q&A live session 1 | Tuesday 8/03, 16-17h |
| Q&A live session 2 | Thursday 10/03, 16-17h |
| Assignment results discussion | Friday 11/03, 2:30-3:30h |
| Closing live session | Friday 11/03, 3:30-4:30h |
Assignments have a submission deadline
The platform for the training is Notion: www.notion.so
Create an account with your EU email address: instructions
You will be added as a guest to the training materials. This will allow you to:
- find all the training materials and links easily
- add comments and questions
- submit assignments
All module pages have a link to the next module at the bottom, and a link to the overview page
Track your progress by duplicating the training progress page (click the Duplicate link in the top navigation)
Apart from the Q&A live sessions, there is a dedicated Q&A page that you can use to pose questions
You have comment permissions on all pages, so you can add questions directly in the pages (you can mention me with "@Maarten Lambrechts")
You have edit permissions on the assignment pages, so you can add your submission directly to these pages
Links
q&a
EU DataViz training 2022: calendar
| Design principles for data visualisation |
7 - 11 March |
| Telling your story with data visualisation |
28 March - 1 April |
| Pitfalls in data and data visualisation |
25 - 29 April |
| Dataviz in practice: all the dirty little tricks no one tells you about | 30 May - 3 June |
| A deep dive into chart types: bars, lines and beyond | 27 June - 1 July |
| Make your audience inclusive: accessibility for data visualisation | 19 - 23 September |
| A language to think and talk about visualisations: the Grammar of Graphics | 17 - 21 October |