• Duncan Thomson (@DuncanThom on Twitter)
• Contractor Develeper learning Python and interested in Random Generation
• Blog at BanoffeeSolutions.co.uk
• Slides written using R and Markdown

• 8th Regular Meetup
• Machine Learning July 12th (Sam looking for speakers)
• Data Science in Exeter Sep 20th (local case studies)

• How many are data science hobbyists?
• How many in academia?
• How many in private sector?
• How many in public sector?
• Prefer local speakers or more famous ones?
• Interest in a social?

"Data visualization is a general term that describes any effort to help people understand the significance of data by placing it in a visual context. Patterns, trends and correlations that might go undetected in text-based data can be exposed and recognized easier with data visualization software."

• Any observations?

• Anything wrong with it?

• Reality is different to the numbers (less people)
• We are telling a story with the data
• Storytelling with Data growing in importance as an idea.
• What could you do differently with the data?

• PowerPoint?
• R Markdown?
• R Markdown with Shiny?
• Jupyter Notebooks?
• Something Else?

• Scatterplots, line graphs, histograms?
• Gannt Charts? (developers hate them)
• Maps? (people love maps)

• just a fad?

- They look cool!

• What are most useful?
• what are most unusual?

• Charts, presentations, dashboards
• Analysis with R, Python, JavaScript, Jupyter
• Online chart creation tool
• Anyone use it?

• Free with graphs, charts, maps
• Create and collaborate online
• Analysis with R, Python, JavaScript, Jupyter
• Anyone use it?

• http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
• Podcasts (Linear Digressions, Data Skeptic, Partially Derivative)
• Bristol Data Scientists on Meetup (Meetup Tues Jul 11th, Spatial Network Analysis, Data Analysis, Machine Learning)
• Tools blog post at http://www.creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization-712402

• Tweet your questions to @DuncanThom on Twitter
• Connect with me at LinkedIn (Duncan Thomson)

• Questions?