Effective Data Visualization with David Giard – October 24

The Detroit Google Developers Group proudly presents: Effective Data Visualization with David Giard When: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm Where: Quicken Loans Chase Office Building – 635 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI More details and RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/Detroit-Google-Developers-Group/events/84612412/ Effective Data Visualization We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way. Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user. In this session, David Giard will explain some of Tufte’s most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data. About David Giard David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. He is a Microsoft MVP; a member of the INETA Board of Directors; and a past President of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. David has presented at dozens of conferences and user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends. He is the co-author of the Wrox book Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com<http://www.davidgiard.com/>. David lives in Michigan with his two sons.