Communicating with Data

Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team (WOMBAT)


In-person December 7, 2022, and with
virtual tutorials December 6, 2022


About

The focus this year's workshop is on communicating with data, especially in the journalism, websites and reports. There are three topical themes for the invited speaker sessions: environment, health and sports. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together analysts from academia, industry and government to learn and discuss new open source tools for business analytics and data science. You should come if you are an analytics professional, or leading a team of analysts or a developer of new open source tools.

Keynote

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Amanda Cox
Head of special data projects, USAFacts
Topic: Charts and Words: Being more influential with your data graphics

Amanda Cox is well-known for the sixteen years she spent at The New York Times, including a decade on the graphics desk, and six years as the editor of The Upshot. She is internationally recognised as a leader in the field of data visualisation, and has received numerous awards for her data communication work. This will be her first trip down under!

Programme

Note that this is in-person on December 7

Tutorials

Note that these are online with ZOOM on December 6

Registration

Location information

The workshop on December 7 will be held at the Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club, located near the Yarra River, at 310 Williams Rd N, Toorak. It has free parking, and is also a short walk from a variety of tram and bus stops.