AGENDA Workshop 7 Data: Data science and date visualisation 10:00 15 minutes Introductions and explanation of how session will work 10:15 10 minutes Split into 3 groups of 20 at 3 stations around the room 10:25 25 minutes Station 1: Data visualisation with Amanda Windle, London

College of Communication. An interactive session about how data visualisation requires a change from the usual ways of working/thinking.

1. Group examples of representing small to big data using infographics that get more and more complicated from pies to treemaps to combinations of both, i.e. a stacked bar chart with heat maps combined 2. 15 min exercise - in smaller groups of 4-5, using A3 sheets on making infographic choices 3. Critique / evaluation on their choices of infographics

10:50 10 mins Move around 11:00 25 minutes Station 2: Data science session, Cabinet Office data science

team 1. Some examples of applications of data science 2. Interactive session - solving a policy challenge with data science techniques

11:25 5 mins Move around 11:35 25 minutes Station 3: Data science, Cabinet Office data science team

A GDS data scientist working through a data science project – webscraping data from site WhatDoTheyKnow and analysing the results to show some of the lower level detail of a project so attendees can get an idea of what code looks like and perhaps understand the process a bit better.

12:00 10-15 minute

plenary session - wrap up from both data science and data vis