Data Visualization Masterclass

This hybrid masterclass event will teach you about different types of chart and visual encoding, common mistakes people make and when to break the rules.

Learn how to choose good visualizations designs, to analyse and present your data effectively.

There will be limited tickets available to attend in person in LIDA Boardroom 11.87, level 11 Worsley Building, with all other tickets available to join the session online.

Speaker Bio:

Roy Ruddle is a Professor of Computing at the University of Leeds, and Director of Research Technology at the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA). Roy has worked in both industry and academia, and specialises in interdisciplinary research into interactive visualization, data quality and data science workflows. His Leeds Virtual Microscope (LVM) has been commercialised by the healthcare company Roche and was a REF2021 Impact Case Study.

He was an Alan Turing Institute Fellow from 2018 – 2023, and is currently principal investigator on two major projects: Making Visualization Scalable (MAVIS) for explainable AI (funded by the EPSRC) and AI for Dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity (DynAIRx; funded by the NIHR). He has published a practitioner’s guide for rigorously and efficiently checking data quality ( https://doi.org/10.5518/1481) and an associated software package as open source ( https://pypi.org/project/vizdataquality/).

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