Visits is a new visualisation tool by Alice Thudt, Sheelagh Carpendale and Dominikus Baur that lets you browse your location histories and explore your trips and travels. The tool is based on a research project from the University of Calgary.
Visits: A visualisation tool for location histories and photos Read More »
Occasionally I invite folks to contribute guest posts to profile their work, ideas or knowledge. This guest post comes from Benn Stancil from a startup called Mode who have created a really interesting tool that allows you to reverse engineer analysis/visualisations in order to potentially take them in new directions.
Guest post: Using Mode to re-engineer data visualisations Read More »
A quick announcement to the broader visitorship out there, having briefly tweeted about it last week I am thrilled to have received approval to start work on my second book, which will be published by SAGE.
Beginning the journey towards book number two 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 April 2014.
Best of the visualisation web… April 2014 Read More »
Over the past couple of days I’ve been asking people in my corner of Twitter for suggestions for classic book titles from subject areas that are not data visualisation but that do hold many interesting related ideas, theories and concepts. Things that we can draw from and apply to our understanding of data visualisation.
Books about related but non-data visualisation subjects Read More »
I’m currently in Chicago for a couple of days to deliver my public workshop. Thanks to the recommendation of Tom Schenk Jr. I had chance to quickly see a really nice free exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation called ‘Chicago: City of big data’.
Exhibition ‘Chicago: City of big data’ Read More »
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Miguel Nacenta, University of St Andrews, was one of the people behind the development of the FatFonts technique. Whilst chatting with Miguel he showed me a short video of another tool he has co-worked on developing called Transmogrifiers.
Transmogrifiers: On-the-fly graphic transformations Read More »
A pictoral insight into the challenge of teaching. “People might seek teaching in data visualisation because they find themselves doing this…”
The challenges of teaching data visualisation Read More »
It is self-promotion day here on Visualising Data! Just published now is a podcast I did with Julie Gould from the NatureJobs blog, discussing various aspects of the data visualisation game.
Data visualisation podcast recorded for NatureJobs Read More »
I was recently asked to write about the subject in an article for the Harvard Business Review: ‘Visualizing Zero: How to Show Something with Nothing’. This piece offers a brief overview of the content of my talk at OpenVisConf.
Article on Harvard Business Review Read More »