What is this training about?

This Masterclass training course provides attendees with a sophisticated understanding of how to communicate data visually in the most impactive way. Delivered online across three consecutive days of 4 hour sessions, this training de-constructs this complex, multi-disciplinary craft into an organised sequence of topics towards giving attendees a thorough appreciation of how to navigate through the many creative, editorial, and analytical options that exist.

In contrast to the shorter ‘Fundamentals of Data Visualisation’ training also offered by Andy Kirk, this course teaches the same contents but in more breadth and more detail, includes additional topics not covered in the shorter course, and has much more time to allow for opportunities to practice the learning on exercise activities.

Who is this training for?

This training is relevant to anyone who has a role in or undertakes duties involving the analysis, presentation, and communication of data. Whether your work is primarily concerned with building dashboards, creating infographics, constructing data stories, or producing charts for reports, its all part of the same world. This popular course will enlighten you with new ideas and approaches for visualising data in the most contextually-reasoned way.

Please note this is not technical training – you will not receive teaching in the form of instruction based tutorials for how to make charts in specific tools – but you will learn more about the profile of common tools that are being used in the field today, as well as access to many useful online references to help you develop your technical skills beyond the course.

For more information about the course contents and objectives visit the training page where you will also find a selection of testimonials from previous attendees.

Who is this training delivered by?

Andy Kirk is an independent data visualisation expert based in the UK. He is one of the most in-demand, experienced, and prolific educators in the field, having delivered over 430 public and private training courses since becoming a freelance professional in 2010. Visit Andy’s website, visualisingdata.com, to learn more about his training experiences as well as his other work in visualisation design, consultancy, lecturing, and book authoring.

Timings

To accommodate the unique demands of learning online, the Masterclass training will be delivered across a sequence of three consecutive 4-hour daily workshops, spread over Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th April 2026. Each daily session commences at 9am and finishes no later than 1pm (UK, BST). There will be frequent short breaks during each session to help the brain, ears, and eyes briefly relax.

Technology

This course will be delivered entirely online, with Zoom (fully encrypted) selected as the technology to present and deliver the collaborative learning experience. Attendees will require a laptop or desktop computer with microphone access enabled as a minimum, a web camera is entirely optional.

The online whiteboard platform, Miro, will be used extensively during the course to collate and share exercise activities. More details will be provided in the class. Other than using a browser and a pdf reader, no additional tools will be necessary to have access to or skills with for this non-technical course.

Training materials will be issued digitally, including the teaching slides, exercise files and further useful resources, and delegates will receive instructions and information about this prior to the course resources. OneDrive, as a first preference, or WeTransfer, as an alternative, will be the typical methods used for material sharing.

All workshop sessions will be recorded to provide a backup track for any attendee who may experience any form of disruption or interruption to their course attendance (eg. meetings, home schooling, deliveries). These recordings will be shared online and will be available to watch up to 1 month after the course is completed.

Registration

Registration can be made online using the built-in Eventbrite payment processing system. Click on ‘Get Tickets’, choose the relevant ticket option, and then follow the instructions to complete the delegate registration and payment details.

If you would prefer to register offline and arrange payment via an invoice process for electronic transfer just email andy@visualisingdata.com to reserve your place and progress your registration.

Pricing: Fees, VAT charges, and Discounts!

The standard registration pricing for this course is £625+VAT per person. The total cost will depend on any additional processing fees, your VAT exemption status, and the application of potential discounts.

VAT charges are relevant to the following types of buyer:

• All attendees registering from the UK will pay an additional 20% VAT charge.
• Any attendee registering from an EU organisation which is not VAT registered in their local region will face the additional 20% VAT charge.

VAT charges are exempt for the following types of buyer:

• Any attendee registering from an EU organisations which are VAT registered are exempt from these charges. You should select ‘VAT exempt’ ticket types and enter your organisation’s VAT details in the order form to formalise this exemption.
• All attendees registering who are based in any other world region outside of the UK and the EU (eg. US, India, Australia) are exempt from VAT charges and should select the ‘VAT exempt’ ticket types accordingly.

There are FOUR ways of joining this course at a reduced price…

(1) Subscribers to Andy Kirk’s Visualising Data Newsletter will find a promo code for a 10% discount mentioned in each monthly issue.

(2) Do you own a copy of the ‘Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design‘ book (any edition)? If you do there is a 10% discount available when using the promo code which is the full name of the final chart type in the gallery of methods presented in the book’s sixth chapter. The same final ‘chart’ is listed is all editions of the book. Removing the space, the code should be 7 characters in length.

To apply this discount, when you get to the training registration checkout, in the ‘Promo code’ box enter the code (not case sensitive) and this will reduce the price by 10%.

(3) Eventbrite charges a non-refundable processing fee of ~8% which applies to all registration types. To avoid incurring these additional charges you may instead choose to register offline and arrange payment via an invoice process for electronic transfer. If you/your organisation prefer this method please just email andy@visualisingdata.com to reserve your place and progress your registration.

(4) For some people interested in attending such training, finances can be a barrier. Whether it is due to the relative cost of living in your region or specific personal circumstances, it is entirely appreciated that financial obstacles will exist for some. As a commitment to widening access to these training courses, at least 2 places will be made available on this course, no questions asked, at a discounted ‘pay what you can afford’ basis.

If you would benefit from and feel you would qualify to take one of these available places please email andy@visualisingdata.com to make the necessary arrangements for your registration (ie. this may entail being issued with a discount code to apply to a standard registration procedure).