Upcoming data-related community meetups, exhibitions and talks in the UK. Virtual events are prefixed with ONLINE at the beginning of the title, and paid-ticket events end with (£).

What's new in the world of data and analytics, plus the latest best-in-class infographic and dataviz pieces and Youtube data skills and careers content.

22nd March 2023	Data Viz Catalogue	Data Viz	Introducing The Data Visualisation Catalogue website - a thoughtful and very practical blog and glossary of chart types explaining for each one intended uses, advantages/drawbacks, and (best of all) BI tools and prgramming languages that support them. An excellent resource for analysts looking to broaden their visual vocabularies.
24th Febuary 2023	Centre for Data Innovation	Data in the news	An interesting opinion article from earlier this months discussing the shortcomings of the EU's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). Because 261 pages of GDPR just wasn't enough...
24th February 2023	Curbal	Youtube Video	A pithy summary of this month's Power BI updates from Ruth Pozuelo Martinez on her Youtube channel. Good new functionality for security management and image embedding.
16th February 2023	Informatica	Surveys and reports	Informatica's CDO Insights 2023 report (sample size 600) was conducted in December 2022. Its key findings contain useful lessons on organisational structure and data estate complexity for companies looking to extract maximum value from data.
16th February 2023	Luke Barousse	Data Viz	Data analyst and Youtuber Luke Barousse's new webapp - Datanerd.tech - is a super interactive dashboard showing top data skills to learn by average salary, job role, and skill type (coding language/library extension/visualisation tool).
8th February 2023	Mother Duck	Data Blog	Big Data as a thing to aspire to or feel intimidated by is becoming less and less prevalent, according to this blog article from a former Google BigQuery engineer.
8th February 2023	Dr Peter Bleackley	Data Blog	An interesting take on the limitations of ChatGPT and the wider topic of natural langauge processing from data scientist Dr Peter Bleackley of Playful Technology.
2nd February 2023	Leila Gharani	Youtube Video	Leila is in her Excel happy place with this short but sweet five minute video explaining how to give Excel charts a hand-drawn feel and design. It's more simple than you'd assume and a neat way to elevate reports above Excel default without too much work.
2nd February 2023	Visual Capitalist	Data Viz	Visual Capitalist on great form with this infographic on political polarization levels in 28 countries. Stylishly presented, enriched with commentary and linked to the source data, which itself is robust and open about sample size and margin of error.
29th January 2023	Analytics Power Hour	Podcast	The Analytics Power Hour podcast discusses career directions for data analysts and ways of evaluating job satisfaction.
4th January 2023	Venture Beat	Data in the news	A useful top-14 rundown of data and analytics trends, buzzwords and new technologies to look out for in 2023.
2nd January 2023	Katie Bauer	Data blog	Katie talks more good sense in her latest blog about the right habits to get into for success as a data analyst or analytics leader, particularly within companies where data is not the main product or service and plays more of a supporting role to other business functions.
7th December 2022	LinkedIn	Data Viz	A visually clear and useful heatmap viz from Hive Systems reposted on LinkedIn which shows complexity of passwords against the time taken to guess them by brute force hacking.
7th December 2022	Curbal	Youtube video	A good summary of new Power BI features from the November 2022 release. Curbal sings the same tune as UCOVI with her frustration at feature upgrades long overdue in the core software which lock you into more third-party tools.
28th November 2022	Luke Barousse	Youtube video	An entertaining 14-minute watch covering the versatility of Python when it comes to all stages of analystics from preparation to presentation.
20th November 2022	Youtube	Data debates	A clear and detailed outline of DaaP - casting each piece of data science/analytic/operational output within a business as its own product that needs servicing, marketing, and potentially expiring - can be watched here in this data.world seminar recording from BigData LDN 2022.
20th November 2022	LinkedIn	Misc	This LinkedIn meme for its on-point depiction of the attention that data-process complexity gets from business stakeholders through a lovely homage to 90s/00s laddish behaviour.
8th November 2022	Twitter	Data Viz	A 6-minute bubble animation from @WallStreetSilv summating 500 years of European history via countries and key empires as moving circles - bashing into each other during wars. Neat stuff (even if the background music isn't entirely necessary).
7th November 2022	The Guardian	Data in the news	An insightful article written by a UK House of Commons statistician on key areas of government policy that were found later to be based on mistakes in spreadsheets.
4th November 2022	Visual Capitalist	Data Viz	A visually appealing and slightly tragic new piece from Visual Capitalist plotting social interaction vs age range in the USA.
4th October 2022	Information is Beautiful	Data Viz	The longlist has been announced for the 2022 Information is Beautiful Awards. Take a look at some 1,000 infographics and data viz pieces from the past 3 years.
2nd October 2022	Validity	Surveys and reports	A survey of 1000+ CRM and data professionals on the standard of CRM data quality in their companies and common causes of problems. View here.
27th September 2022	TechCrunch	Data in the news	An article showcasing the rise of Unravel Data - a software product to help data teams report on the complexity and cost of their own data stacks. Read here.
19th September 2022	Visual Capitalist	Data Viz	Another good one from Visual Capitalist, visualising statistical blinds spots in data analytics. Good starter materials for those exploring statistical concepts such as sampling bias or Simpsin's paradox.
11th September 2022	Katie Bauer	Data blog	A highly insightful essay from a US-based data science leader on what homework to do during the interview process for management or leadership position within data analytics. Relevant to non-management roles as well.
4th September 2022	Luke Barousse	Youtube video	A new 10-minute whistle-stop tour of different types of machine learning and how to get into it.
26th August 2022	Hold the Front Page	Data in the news	A free new six-week course in data literacy for journalists has been launched by Sheffield University. Read here.
5th August 2022	Leila Gharani	Youtube video	Microsoft MVP Leila Gharani covers new functionality in Excel to get data from images or screengrabs that contain numbers. It has its limits but overall a good productivity hack.
5th August 2022	Visual Capitalist	Data Viz	At UCOVI we love a beer, and we love this worldwide beer consumption chart on Visual Capitalist. This hybrid pie-chart/treemap visual seems to be catching on, and the technique of arranging the areas into randomly-shaped but easy-to-size-compare areas instead of slices emanating from the centre point boosts readability, style and sense of fun.
3rd August 2022	Adam Dant	Data Viz	Possibly stretching the bounds of what constitutes data viz, but the London-based artist Adam Dant is very much the David McCandless of the hand-painted world with his new book Adam Dant's Political Maps. This is a wide collection of drawn London-map infographics (a comprehensive map of scandals involving Boris Johnson and garish architectural ideas that never materialised being two examples), as well as amusing randoms such as a drinking occasion for every day of the year and what to drink. It scratches an itch for anyone interested in information visualisation.
31st July 2022	Visual Capitalist	Data Viz	Allow us to introduce Visual Capitalist - a real treasure trove of magazine-quality infographics and reports on the global economy, climate change, the mass media and much else. Their latest piece is an animated pie chart tracing the rise and fall of popular web browsers since the 1990s.
22nd July 2022	Microsoft	New Software Features	Power BI July 2022 Update shipped - feature summary here.
22nd July 2022	Financial Times	Data Viz	A colourful downloadable poster from the FT grouping chart and graph types into 9 core statistical and analytical goals (spatial/variable correlation/change over time etc).
14th July 2022	Stack Overflow	Surveys and reports	Stack Overflow's 2022 developer survey findings have been published. If there's a question about developers, tech and coding that this survey didn't ask, it simply wasn't worth asking. Plenty here for data folk.
14th July 2022	Leila Gharani	Youtube video	A handy new demo from Leila Gharani on embedding Power BI reports in PowerPoint and keeping the tooltip, filtering and drillthrough functionality.
10th July 2022	Twitter	Data Viz	William Lau (@MrLauLearning) with a London Underground map visual representation of the GCSE IT and Computer Science course. An imaginative and accessible view of how IT, programming and data are taught at school level in the UK and a good shopping list of new concepts to look into for budding data engineers and programmers.
29th June 2022	Reddit	Data Viz	A truly excellent deployment of a 2-axis heatmap to show popularity of compound insults used on Reddit. On the X-axis you have the first part ("dumb"), with the second part on the Y ("ass"). View here.
26th June 2022	MSNBC	Data in the news	A spotlight on data privacy legal loopholes as they relate to the Roe vs Wade controversy in the US. Read here.