January 2012

What Tableau 7.0 brings to the data visualisation table

A couple of weeks ago Tableau announced the launch of version 7.0 of their popular Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics software. To find out more about this development I invited Craig Bloodworth, a Tableau evangelist and consultant for The Information Lab to highlight some of the new data visualisation features and enhancements.

Sightsmap provides interactive ‘sightseeing heatmap’

Just come across a really interesting interactive project from Estonian Professor, Tanel Tammet, called ‘Sightsmap‘ which overlays a heatmap onto a Google map platform allowing users to pan and zoom around the globe to see the locations where the most intensely photographed areas in the world. The heatmap is a representation of the number of available Panoramio photos for …

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Visualising Data is on the move – offline for a short period

Just wanted to inform readers and anybody contacting me that I will be offline and out of action for the next few days as I’m moving house. I’m leaving the relative hustle and bustle of city life in Leeds to the more quaint world of Hebden Bridge, the picturesque pennine town which has a rich literary history and creative …

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