As one of the world’s leading cartographic societies, the BCS offers a unique forum for exchanging ideas and sharing knowledge on all aspects of maps and mapmaking.
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Our regular talks and lectures and our annual conference presentations are usually recorded and made available soon after the event. These include the latest ideas and rersearch and practical applications across the whole spectrum of geospatial data visualisation.
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To explore our extentise catalogue use the YouTube Link below.
Oliver Burdekin is a GIS specialist with over a decade of experience working within tropical ecology, human geography and the extractives industry. After developing his field skills in the forests of Latin America, he moved back to the UK in 2014 to offer GIS training and consultancy through burdGIS. He is a tutor in GIS at the University of Oxford and in his spare time enjoys trying to surf in the cold UK waters.
John Nelson is a map maker, software experience designer, and writer at Esri creating fringe geographic data, curious web experiences, moderately-educational blog posts, and mildly-instructional videos. He works in a small woodshed in Michigan and relishes the opportunity to chat with other map folks.
My name is Steven Bernard and I am the Senior Visual Journalist at the Financial Times, where I have worked for more than 25 years.
My formal training is as a scientific illustrator. What’s that I hear you ask? It involves producing illustrations for medical journals, natural history publications, anything where you are trying to convey information visually where a photograph cannot. Think of diagrams showing the human circulatory system, or showing a procedure to fix a broken bone.
I have always had a love of cartography, from a young age I would spend many hours poring over the pages of my well-thumbed Bartholemew atlas.
Although I was fascinated by maps, it wasn't until I joined the FT that I discovered how powerful they can be as a tool for conveying information.
My goal is always to convey the primary message in the data with a map, but I also feel it is equally important to produce a map that is aesthetically pleasing.
My QGIS tutorial videos were my attempt to give something back to the cartographic community and help young cartographers get to grips with the software.
Outside of mapping I'm a keen photographer, avid Formula One fan and have recently returned to my first love of drawing.
You can find all my recent work on Twitter.
The Data Visualization Society was founded to serve as a professional home for those working across the discipline while leading others into this growing, dynamic field, and to increase the visibility and value of data visualization to the general public.
Our mission is to connect data visualizers across tech stacks, subject areas, and experience: we invite you to be part of our community.