The Bank of England has announced details of its first data visualisation competition, in conjunction with the One Bank Research Agenda conference and the release of new publicly available Bank data sets. The winning entry will receive £5000.
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I’m musing about this visualisation work that has received a lot of love and attention on blogs and social media over the past few days. Created by the excellent people in the Wall Street Journal graphics team, it portrays data about the impact of vaccines in battling infectious diseases in the 20th Century.
Is it the visualisation or the data we like? Read More »
One of the frequent questions I get asked, particularly by people from a scientific or financial domain, is how to effectively visualise uncertainty of data and of statistics. My response is usually to make suggestions around annotated markings and/or colour gradients to indicate increasing or declining certainties.
References for visualising uncertainty Read More »
Today I am celebrating the 5th birthday of visualisingdata.com and I wanted to thank every single one of the half a million visitors who have been to my site. Whether you have been along just the once or have been back time and time again, you have all helped to make this such an incredibly rewarding activity.
5 years of visualising data Read More »
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from December 2014.
Best of the visualisation web… December 2014 Read More »
There’s a smart new project from the team at Clever Franke who have created a digital package of visual content around the topics of ‘Mobility, Economy and Livability’ for CMAP, the regional planning agency for metropolitan Chicago.
New visual package for Chicago planning agency Read More »
It goes without saying how much of a privilege it is to be invited to contribute to a Data Stories podcast and last week I joined hosts Enrico and Moritz alongside Robert Kosara to review the major trends and developments during 2014 and preview the main hopes and expectations for 2015.
Data Stories podcast: Episode 46, a review and preview Read More »
Anybody facing up to colour choices in any creative activity knows how critical such decisions can be between the success and failure of a design. This is amplified in data visualisation. In contrast to graphic design work, for example, there is greater need to eliminate or at least reduce arbitrary choices.
Make grey your best friend Read More »
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions Annual Conference for 2015 event in Grapevine, Texas.
Talk slides from ACHep: Communicating Through Data Read More »
With the new year well under way it is a good time to open up a renewed opportunity for people interested in my training offerings to influence where I take my next set of public events.
Seeking training location recommendations for 2015! Read More »