Alan Smith
- Head of Visual and Data Journalism
- United Kingdom
- Member since 2023
Alan Smith is Head of Visual and Data Journalism at the Financial Times. A data visualisation specialist, his TEDx talk Why You Should Love Statistics was featured on TED.com in 2017. Alan is the author of How Charts Work, a handbook on designing with data using the FT's principles.
Before he joined the FT, he was head of digital content at the UK Office for National Statistics where he was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to official statistics.
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