{"id":457,"date":"2019-09-30T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2024-08-21T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:12:21","slug":"457-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/457-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;beautiful&#8221; encounter with David McCandless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I had the privilege to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAC9q0wBMtyvmKQRXxvzsH8uTnRmAffAtnE\/\">David McCandless<\/a>, data journalist and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/informationisbeautiful.net\/\">Information is Beautiful<\/a>, at the European Commission 2019 #EUknowledge week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David gave the opening keynote speech &#8220;Making complex knowledge meaningful \u2013 the power of data visualisation&#8221;. This is my live sketchnotes of his presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2hp1YLs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48830871202_dab9d0b029_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sketchnotes David McCandless\" width=\"455\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my colleagues summarised his speech as follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We are engulfed in a sea of data. Using graphical images that everybody understands, helps to tell the story behind numbers. [&#8230;] The story behind data doesn&#8217;t lie behind the numbers but in the message that the visualisation brings. [&#8230;] Visualisation has the power of analysis, it turns data into a landscape that is ready for you to explore [&#8230;] Data visualisation is like taking a photo, it brings into contrast what is in or out of focus, what is in the background, what is on the forefront. As a data journalist David feels close to photography journalism. You can zoom in or you can go wide to tell your story [&#8230;] Visualisation unlocks what needs to be known, it gives clarity to big data.\u00a0 [&#8230;] To be better understood you convert to a visual language. When you can encode the message in visualisation you bring clarity and there is beauty in clarity. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so happy and honoured that David signed my sketchbook with \u201c<em>Beautiful<\/em>\u201d. It means a lot to me from the man who wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Information-Beautiful-New-David-McCandless\/dp\/0007492898\/kib-21\">Information is beautiful<\/a>\u201d and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007427921\/kib-21\">Knowledge is beautiful<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/withdavidmccandless-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-459\" width=\"386\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/withdavidmccandless.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/withdavidmccandless-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to meet David McCandless, data journalist and founder of Information is Beautiful, at the European Commission 2019 #EUknowledge week. David gave the opening keynote speech &#8220;Making complex knowledge meaningful \u2013 the power of data visualisation&#8221;. This is my live sketchnotes of his presentation. One of my colleagues summarised his speech as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/457-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A &#8220;beautiful&#8221; encounter with David McCandless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39,12,6],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visuals","tag-data-visualisation","tag-graphic-recording","tag-sketchnotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claudionichele.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}