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\title{Hi! I am Andy Kirk, editor of visualisingdata.com and dataviz freelancer
doing design consultancy, teaching, writing and dataviz for Arsenal FC -
I am delighted to invite you to AMA/Ask Me Anything!}



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  \date{April 23, 2026}


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Hello everyone. My name is Andy Kirk and I am a UK-based freelance data
visualisation specialist. I do dataviz design consultancy, run training
workshops, write books, give talks, undertake research work, lecture at
Imperial College and I am the editor of visualisingdata.com. I also
provide data visualisation services to the Arsenal FC performance team.
You can find me on the web, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I
launched visualisingdata.com at start of 2010 to continue learning,
research and writing about the subject. It won (gold, 2015) and lost
(silver, 2016) awards at the last two Kantar Information is Beautiful
awards event. I tend to be known for my list-making, with my `Best
of\ldots{}' monthly and '10 most significant developments' posts quite
popular as well as my `Little of visualisation design' \#LittleVis
series. I also try to compile useful data resources for folks trying to
make sense of all the options out there, such as dataviz tools, the
chartmaker directory and dataviz books. Since I became a freelance
professional in 2011 I have focused, primarily, on providing data
visualisation consultancy and training workshops -- of which I have
delivered over 210 public and private training events across the UK,
Europe, North America, India, South Africa and Australia. You can see my
past clients listed here. In July 2016, I released my second book
entitled ``Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design'',
published by Sage. So that's me in text form here's proof that I am
actually me. ** Update @ 6:30pm (BST): I'm back, let's do this **%
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