Dear Maps-L,



The talk and discussion below might be of interest to those with an interest in geospatial data visualisation.



Best,



Gethin



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Dr Gethin Rees

Lead Curator, Digital Mapping

British Library





Elijah Meeks on Data Vizualisation, brought to you by the Pelagios Network



14 July at 17.00 BST / 09.00 PST via Zoom (link to be supplied after signup)



For the past decade, Elijah Meeks[1] has been working on the challenges of how to visualize big (complex and messy) data in ways that empower users. In this talk he will discuss metric design and how data visualization is key to developing meaningful metrics that help us understand the subject matter rather than just naively present the data.



Elijah's talk will be preceded by a short introduction to the Visualization Activity[2] of the Pelagios Network and how to get involved.



The Zoom meeting room has limited capacity. If you would like to attend, please sign up in advance here: https://forms.gle/7Hay8kHxWezukx4V6



We look forward to seeing you there!



Gethin Rees and Elton Barker





[1] Elijah Meeks is co-founder and Chief Visualization Officer at Noteable<https://noteable.io/>, where he's developing a new notebook platform with robust data visualization and management capabilities. He is also co-founder and Executive Director of the Data Visualization Society, an international professional organization for data visualization with over 14,000 members. Previously he has worked at Netflix and Apple as a data visualization engineer and consulted with various companies on all aspects of data visualization practice and strategy. It all began at Stanford, where Elijah developed pioneering data visualization methods for the popular digital humanities projects ORBIS and Kindred Britain.



[2] The Visualization Activity of the Pelagios Network supports the development of tools and methods for visualising geospatial information. If you would like more information, go to https://pelagios.org/activities/visualisation/ or simply reply to this email.







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