Skill-set

➢  D3, HTML5/CSS3, JQuery, JQueryUI, Less, SVG, JavaScript (ES5/ES6), TypeScript, BootStrap, Pym, Media Queries

➢  Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop), Sketch, Affinity Designer, Tableau, Trello, GitHub, InVision

➢  ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS

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About

Hi! My name is James, and I am data visualisation professional based in Milton Keynes in Middle-England (like Tolkien’s Middle-earth, but with more roundabouts, concrete cows replacing dragons and smaller hills). My background was forged in the arena of the earth sciences, specialising in statistical predictive seismology, graduating with a PhD from the University of East Anglia, England in July 2011. 

On completing my PhD, I always felt destined to remain in industry, having worked at the Office for National Statistics during its entire course of study, in a range of analytical research roles. The final of which during my 12 years at the ONS was in their Data Visualisation Centre. I found data visualisation fascinating, and immediately saw its potential, place and need in the modern workplace. Working in the Data Visualisation Centre at ONS, combined with the need to visualise numerous dimensions of earthquake seismology during my PhD help develop my own personal fascination with data visualisation while creating new, novel visual design content for my PhD thesis outside of work, while doing the same for ONS business areas are the wider UK Government Civil Service at work.

I now have over 6 years’ experience successfully fulfilling roles in the Data Visualisation arena in public and private-sector organisations, and have experience of working in multidisciplinary team environments on projects or varying sizes and degrees of complexity.

I become fully engaged in projects requiring design of new and novel interactive or static visual content, pushing the importance of good practice-driven data visualisation in the workplace higher up the project and corporate agenda. I have hands-on experience of working independently and collaboratively with corporate Branding, IM/IT, Design and Creative teams, data scientists and user experience designers. I have broad ranging experience of working on data visualisation projects aimed at corporate social media campaigns, Proof-of-Concept (PoC) style projects, conference presentations and demo-stand content, slide decks, visual content for long-story articles, Thought-Leadership campaigns, content to support white papers and formal reports as well as bespoke interactive, animated and static content. My work has graced the small-screens of conference demo-stands to larger screen set-ups of Imperial College’s Data Science Institute’s KPMG Observatory, Open Data Institute (ODI) Summit conferences and World Economic Forum conferences.

Time spent in ONS’s Data Visualisation Centre gave me a solid grounding in good-practice techniques for effective data visualisation, charting design, colorimetry and visual perception as well as the basis for a good understanding of using D3 for creating novel interactive and static visual design pieces. I ensure all these are adopted and applied across all data visualisation work I undertake.

I specialise in a range of modern web development technologies combined with complementary techniques for data visualisation design theory and application. I especially focus on the industry-standard visualisation library D3 to create effective framework-free, thought-provoking and engaging visualisations, and as a result I will favour potential clients wanting content produced in this particular open-source software technology.

Thanks, and I look forward to working with you.