Data Visualization Challenge & Telling Lies with Pie Charts

We're very excited with this month's Meetup line-up! Could be our best one yet.

We'll warm-up with a quick tutorial on using pie charts before getting to the main event.. 2012 APF Canada National Opinion Poll Data Visualization Challenge.

To coincide with the release of its 2012 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Views on Asia the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is... [read more]

We're very excited with this month's Meetup line-up! Could be our best one yet.

We'll warm-up with a quick tutorial on using pie charts before getting to the main event.. 2012 APF Canada National Opinion Poll Data Visualization Challenge.

To coincide with the release of its 2012 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Views on Asia the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is excited to coordinate a data visualization challenge with Vancouver Data Visualization. The challenge begins May 16st, 2012.

For anyone interested in designing Inforgraphics or Data Visualizations, this is an excellent chance to showcase your ideas. Work as an individual or collaberate as a team!

We will showcase and review the submissions as a group at the next meetup in June.

Meetup Agenda:

VDV Group News (5 mins)
Telling Lies with Pie Charts (10 mins)

Wayne Carrigan will demonstrate the deceptive nature of pie charts and why they should seldom be used for data visualization

Overview of APF Canada Challenge (10 mins)
Review of 2012 APF Canada National Opinion Poll Data (20 mins)
Member Announcements

Any member can make a 30 second announcement (10 mins)

Networking (10 mins)
Wrap-up (5 mins)

See you then!

Wayne

Lead Organizer,

Vancouver Data Visualization

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