Andy Kirk

@visualisingdata.com

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An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010. 🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪 It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/

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"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product," he said.

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Poon reportedly pointed to automated tools lacking the training and expertise of veteran technicians - many of whom he said had left the company before their knowledge could be used to improve its tech.

He said these human workers had since been reintroduced to train up its systems, as well as mentor younger workers.

Manchester United’s training ground

Manchester United badge on the wall…

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View of my office back wall with various artworks and my book, but what is this new guy in position 3?

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Virgil Van Dijk celebrating a glorious winning goal against the bitter blues

I, Andy Kirk, have humorously updated a caption from a famous scene in Jaws to now read "You're gonna need a further home to store old data viz books". This is because RJ keeps buying old data viz books and he's starting to stress me out because I just don't know where he's going to put them all. I find it hard enough to store my books and I'm not scooping up copies of every book with a chart in it published at any time in human history.

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We live in a world defined increasingly by instability and insanity. It's utterly bewildering. A man in a red baseball cap is sitting in a room assassinating foreign leaders like he's playing a video game. Children die and nobody cares. You don't know if that photo is real. You don't know if that news really happened. You seem to spend half your life punching in six-digit authentication codes. The YouTube video you want to watch comes with 50 seconds of non-skippable adverts. The lane assist on your car keeps fighting you. Politicians of all stripes insist "it didn't used to be like this" , and everyone nods in recognition.

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My mum’s little dog with her Christmas present thinks this could be DEAD POETS SOCIETY

This Christmas car I spotted believes it’s FAST & FURIOUS (maybe 5?)

Randy Quaid knows it’s BABY DRIVER!

The rowing Santa and his elves strongly believe this is YOU’VE GOT MAIL

A little dog I made friends with in a cafe yesterday told me it’s FREAKIER FRIDAY.

Bill Murray is sure it’s FREAKY FRIDAY