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+# {{ date }} <br> SWD7: Introduction to Data Visualization
+
+Welcome to the hack pad for SWD7 course from Research Computing at the University of Leeds!
+
+You can edit this document using [Markdown syntax](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).
+
+## Contents
+
+1. [Links to resource](#Links-to-resources)
+2. [Agenda](#Agenda)
+3. [What's your name and where do you come from?](#What’s-your-name-and-where-do-you-come-from)
+
+
+## Links to resources
+
+- [Guidelines](https://github.com/ARCTraining/swd7-notes/blob/main/docs/guidelines.md)
+- [Notebooks](https://colab.research.google.com/github/murphyqm/key-data-vis-requirements/)
+- [Research Computing website](https://arc.leeds.ac.uk/)
+- [Contact Research Computing](https://bit.ly/arc-help)
+
+## Agenda
+
+| Session | Time | Duration |
+|---------|------|----------|
+| Intro presentation 1 (slides) | 10.00 am - 10.20 am | 20 mins |
+| Interactive introduction section (see devcontainer instructions above) | 10.20 am - 10:50 am | 40 mins |
+| Brief break | | |
+|Practical Session 1: An introduction, Exploratory data vis (2 notebooks) | 11.00 am - 12.00 pm | 1 hour (with breaks) |
+| Lunch | 12.00 pm - 13.00 pm | 1 hour |
+| Practical Session 2: Leveraging external libraries | 13.00 pm - 13.40 pm | 40 mins|
+| Brief break | | |
+| Practical Session 3: Composition of multi-panel and gridded plots | 13:50 pm - 14:30 pm | 40 mins |
+| Brief break | | |
+| Practical Session 4: Exploring heatmaps and legends | 14:40 pm - 15:20 pm | 40 mins |
+| Brief break | | |
+| Practical Session 5: Exploring a dataset | 15:30 pm - 16:20 pm | 50 mins |
+| Final Q&A | until 16:30 | 10 mins |
+
+## What's your name and where do you come from? 
+
+- **Add your own entry below using the edit mode**