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Business analyst, who does dataviz on the job or on the side, in Christchurch, New Zealand

Please take a moment and fill out the 2018 Data Visualization Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft5kH866hkyVbxqe8Cl7mJDBLbpy5aWIHmYP5ztdO8RDattg/viewform

Elijah Meeks did this last year, and provide lots of good insights and discussions around the data viz industry

Data Visualization Community Survey 2018

Last year's survey of the data visualization community gave us great material to analyze and visualize. With over a thousand responses from various practitioners, it also revealed aspects of the survey that underserved some audiences. This year's survey has many of the same questions, so we can see if anything has changed in how data visualization is being done, but also some adjustments to better reflect these different modes of practice. This survey is anonymous and the results will be released to the public on Github. It's a long survey, but if enough of us take the time to answer all these questions, we'll all have access to the resulting dataset for visualization and analysis, and that means we'll all be able to better achieve success in this field. Survey questions and final draft edited by Elijah Meeks but were based on much input from data visualization professionals all over. The anonymized results will be released publicly after the survey is closed.

Interesting chart from Washington Post, a circle beeswarm, with circle packing within each parent node. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/school-shootings-database/
More than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine

The Washington Post spent months determining how many children have been exposed to gun violence during school hours since the Columbine High massacre in 1999.

Washington Post
dual axes can be good, right? they work here ok https://vis.social/media/lJ0t7qEC9Hx9CS9FhDQ
only realised today what the difference was between Home and Local Timeline

currently working on an MS implemention, and read this doozy on the MS website on "Common myths of reporting":

"Myth #3: Developers are good at creating visually compelling designs.
In reality, developers are the often the worst offenders when it comes to producing elegant design layouts that will appeal to the customer’s aesthetic preferences."

ummmm

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/analytics/information-access-reporting

Information access and reporting in Finance and Operations - EE: Finance & Operations, Dynamics 365

This topic explains the various reporting options available as part of the Finance and Operations platform.

#introductions hi
I'm Tom, from NZ. Glad to be here!