Data Visualisation Training: Bringing Data to Life

"The trainers presentation was excellent, this was a great course for my self-development."

Crown Commercial Service

This course will show you how to move beyond the numbers and dry data to use visuals and story to create compelling presentations and reports that will resonate with your audience and bring your data to life.

Whether you are a data analyst who needs to communicate to non-specialists or a manager who needs to provide clear and compelling strategy and direction, this course will help you understand how to translate seemingly dry data into visuals and compelling arguments that will inspire and inform your audience and deliver the impact you seek.

Key Training Features

Who Can Attend

Learning Outcomes


Key Training Features:

  • Understand the importance of good visual storytelling
  • A clear set of techniques and best practice guidelines to take-away
  • Design and present graphs and charts to maximise their impact and memorability
  • Feel confident in interpreting and selecting the data that’s right for your audience
  • Understand the best software and programmes out there to bring your data to life
  • An interactive class with the opportunity to apply tools and techniques learned

Who Can Attend:

This course is for anyone who needs to tell stories and deliver insight with their data.  From managers, data analysts and report writers who need to present data to others internally or externally, in order to demonstrate impact, show performance and communicate findings. 


Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will come away with the practical tools and techniques to deliver a step change in how they and their teams can report data through their presentations, written communication, management reports, and meetings to maximise impact, engagement and understanding.
  • By working through real-life examples, participants will be able to go back to their organisations and apply their learning straight away.

Summary

Duration

10:00 - 16:00

Price

£595 + VAT

Location

Civil Service College, Westminster, London

Dates

Virtual 20 February 2025 Book

Virtual 14 May 2025 Book8

Virtual 22 July 2025 Book8

Face to Face 15 October 2025 Book8

Virtual 4 December 2025 Book8

Lead Trainer

Alan Rutter

Alan Rutter

Alan is a writer, trainer, consultant and speaker with over two decades of experience working across digital, print and live content. His specialisms include data visualisation, writing and design.

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Alan Rutter

Alan Rutter

Alan is a specialist in communicating complex subjects through data visualisation, writing and design. He teaches for General Assembly and runs in-house training for public sector clients including the Home Office, the Department of Transport, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Health Foundation, and numerous local government and emergency services teams.

He previously worked with Guardian Masterclasses on curating and delivering new course strands, including developing and teaching their B2B data visualisation courses. He oversaw the iPad edition launches of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue in the UK, and has worked with Condé Nast International as product owner on a bespoke digital asset management system for their 11 global markets. 

Lead Trainer

Andrea Daniels

Andrea Daniels

Andrea Daniels has over 25 years’ experience utilising and harnessing data to drive consumer understanding and growth for some of our leading organisations and brands.

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Andrea Daniels

Andrea Daniels

Andrea Daniels has over 25 years’ experience utilising and harnessing data to drive audience understanding and empower innovation for some of our leading organisations and brands.

Andrea is currently the Director of Marketing and Digital at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, manufactures and commerce.  Her role focuses on leading the brand and its communication channels connecting and engaging audiences to deliver social change.

Before joining the RSA, Andrea was a Marketing Director at the British Council and worked as a Senior Marketing and Strategy executive at the BBC and its commercial arm BBC Worldwide. Whilst here, she also led on the development and delivery of the corporations first and still most widely used, consumer engagement hub, bringing insight and understanding across the BBC through its digital delivery platforms.

Andrea also has extensive experience of leading research and activity within the public and third sector having worked as a senior researcher and trainer at Ipsos MORI and Kantar in both a qualitative and quantitative research capacity

Andrea holds an MBA from the Open University Business School, Market Research Society’s Diploma in Research Methodology, CIM Certificate in Marketing and a London Business School Diploma in Digital Marketing.  Andrea is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is Prince 2 qualified.

Andrea is also currently the Chair of Trustees for Hackney Night Shelter providing support for the homeless in Hackney and a Board Trustee of Refuge the national domestic abuse charity.


Qualifications:

  • Studied at Manchester University: Politics and Economics Dept.
  • MBA from Open University Business School
  • Market Research Society’s Diploma in Research Methodology
  • CAM Certificate in Marketing

 

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