Dr Emma Uprichard, Co-Director of the Warwick Q-Step Centre, is the Warwick University lead on a new project run in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme

Click on the heading link to see the full University press release or visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/innovative_visualisation_technology/.

Vizipedia is a data visualisation library created by and for the community and an excellent resource for data analysts.

Data Visualizations are pictures of data. With the world's information doubling every two years, understanding large data sets to create meaning is more important than ever. Standalone sets of individual data points can appear meaningless. But data visualizations can turn data points into graphical representations and imagery that can produce insightful knowledge from data and bring to the forefront answers to key questions or patterns

• To view the library visit the website http://www.vizipedia.com.
• To become a part of the pattern library community see the 'Contribute' page: http://www.vizipedia.com/contribute.
• To find out more about the background to Vizipedia visit the 'About' page: http://www.vizipedia.com/about.

A new report from the British Academy offers a vision of how the UK can rise to the potentially transformational challenge of becoming a data-literate nation.

To view the assoicated video or read/download the report please click on the news item header link or visit the Brtish Academy web page: http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/count_us_in_report.cfm?frmAlias=/countusin/.

Join the debate on Twitter with #BACountUsIn and follow @Britac_News.

Warwick Q-Step Team member, Dr Stella Chatzitheochari, to speak at CLS Seminar in November 2015.

Interesting article about big data and politics in the follow-up to the elections:

"Digital targeting using machine-based learning could have huge implications for UK politics and elections of the future "