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Nick Desbarats

As an independent educator and best-selling author, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, and The Central Bank of Tanzania.

Nick is the author of the Amazon #1 New Release “Practical Charts” (2023) and the upcoming “Practical Dashboards” (2025) books, and he regularly contributes articles to The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) that are among that publication’s most widely read and shared. He also regularly delivers main-stage talks at conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SAS Explorers, Data Innovation Summit, and others, and has lectured at Yale University, The University of Toronto, and The Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).

Nick Desbarats's Talk

How to Create Truly Great Charts

Tue 29th – 14:05

Unfortunately, even charts from major news media outlets, universities and high-tech companies often leave readers confused, unmoved, or misled. Why? Well, creating clear, compelling, engaging charts requires a wider variety of skills than many people realize.

In this eye-opening talk, globally recognized instructor and best-selling author Nick Desbarats will reveal the surprisingly wide array of skills that are required to create truly great charts.

Nick will also give a workshop on Practical Charts too!