The British Library will soon to be launching an exciting new season titled ‘Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight’. Running from 20th Feb to 26th May the season incorporates many events dedicated to the art and science of communicating data.
British Library’s ‘Beautiful Science’ season 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 2013.
Best of the visualisation web… December 2013 Read More »
Below you will find an embedded slideshare version of the slides used in last week’s talk at the Design of Understanding 2014 conference. I also did a similar (but longer) talk to students on a Editorial Media Design course at Hogeschool Utrecht the day before.
Talk slides: Design of Understanding 2014 conference Read More »
It is always a thrill 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 2013 and preview the main hopes and expectations for 2014.
Data Stories podcast: Episode 31, a review and preview Read More »
I was thrilled to be invited by George Aranda, editor of the excellent ‘Science Book a Day’, to take part in an interview about a range of visualisation-related themes and to discuss my book that he kindly profiled in December.
Interview for ‘Science Book a Day’ Read More »
Big Data is a term that, according to the 2013 Gartner Hype Cycle, is reaching the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’ and about to face the slippery decline down the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’.
Avoiding work tasks on a Sunday: Big Data puns Read More »
The Music Timeline is a new project from the Big Picture and Music Intelligence research groups at Google. The Big Picture group includes star names such as Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Google Research releases the ‘Music Timeline’ Read More »
I was catching up with my January RSS feeds earlier and my attention was drawn to an unusual item that had been reeled in from a site called ‘4-traders’.
Microsoft’s patent for ‘Dynamic visualization generation and implementation’ Read More »
I now have the final confirmed locations and dates for my data visualisation workshop schedule for the initial part of 2014. Chicago (16th May) and Montreal (19th) were the final outstanding pieces in the jigsaw.
Confirmed training dates for 2014 Read More »
To mark the milestone of each mid-year and end of year I try to take a reflective glance over the previous 6 months period in the data visualisation field and compile a collection of some of the most significant developments.
10 significant visualisation developments: July to December 2013 Read More »