Andy Kirk is a UK-based data visualisation specialist: A design consultant, training provider, lecturer, author, speaker, researcher, and editor of an award-winning website. Since founding Visualising Data Ltd in 2011, he has delivered over 230 public and private training workshop events in 19 countries. Recent clients include Spotify, Telefónica, Tesco, Hershey, and CERN.

Andy is a visiting lecturer teaching data visualisation on a Master's degree programme at Imperial College London and is the author of two books, with the most recent work published in 2016 by Sage and titled 'Visualising Data: A Handbook for Data Driven Design'. He also provides data visualisation services to the Arsenal F.C. performance team.