The waiting room A few weeks ago I was sat in a doctor’s waiting room area trying to kill time before an appointment. Normally, my iPhone would come to my rescue as I try to zone out from the noise of people coughing and sneezing around me but on this occasion I’d left it at […]
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As reported by ResellerNews, Microsoft has today released PivotViewer – an interactive visualisation tool designed to help browse, organise and analyse massive image collections and data sets by displaying dynamic visual summaries through your browser. I’ve not had chance to play with it yet but from first impressions based on watching the official launch videos
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Following the popularity of my recent posts about visualisations and information designs relating to the World Cup, here is a third instalment. I wasn’t intending to produce a third collection, because you can only get so much mileage from the same subject matter, however, I’ve been lucky to have received many additional suggestions.
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No, I’m not launching a career in the blues, but as I have done on a couple of occasions in the past, and more for my own benefit than anybody else, I just wanted to capture some thoughts about the status and progress of the site. Feeds Stats I woke up this morning… and discovered I
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Well I’ve managed to hold off for 53 posts but finally I’m compelled to discuss Minard’s 1869 graph depicting Napoleon’s 1812 march on Moscow, a graph famously described by Edward Tufte as possibly being “the best statistical graphic ever drawn“. It has come up now because Andrew Arbela on The Extreme Presentation Method blog has published a
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Here are some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during May 2010.
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Following the popularity of the Visualising the World Cup 2010 post I published last week, here is something of a sequel presenting a whole host of further examples. Many thanks to all who submitted comments, tweets and sent me emails with suggested links to some of the items displayed below.
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Over the past couple of years we have experienced a number of key world events and stories that have triggered vast amounts of data and information outputs – the US elections, the financial crisis, Haiti earthquake, UK elections and the Iceland volcano are just a few that spring to mind.
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Picked up via an article on a BBC tech blog, below is a video from the Mashable’s YouTube channel showing the Apple App Store visualisation ‘hyperwall’ they’ve on show at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. This visualisation shows the live progress of the 50,000 most popular app downloads from the Apple App Store. As each
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The BBC has published a set of graphics to support their analysis of the (re-) increasing financial crisis across the Eurozone. The first graphic (debt) presents both the national debt and deficit as a % of GDP. Wisely the values are presented on a colour-coded scale using only a single colour. This makes it easier for
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