Last week I was pondering the issue of data visualisation style, a quite ambiguous and hard-to-put-your-finger-on idea that can be interpreted differently depending on your perspective. To me, today, its a combination of tone-of-voice, communication technique and visual identity but tomorrow, if you asked me I might change that definition. So its a hard thing […]
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Last week I announced details of the upcoming Big Data World, Europe conference taking place in London on 19th and 20th September, an event I’ll be speaking at. At the time I said I would do a prize draw for a lucky reader to win a free pass to the full event. Subsequently, one became two
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Just a quick bit of housekeeping and a record of thanks to the folks at Visualizing.org for a honorable mention for my entry in the recent Olympics visualisation contest, The Pursuit of Faster which was praised… “for its level of data analysis that was unmatched by most, if not all, of the challenge entries. Its focused
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I am delighted to have been invited to speak at the Big Data World, Europe conference in London, on the 19th and 20th September taking place at ETC St Paul’s. I just wanted to briefly introduce the event, its line up and also announce that the organisers have kindly provided me with a free complimentary
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This post is not really an article more of a pointer to go elsewhere. Unless you’ve been absent from the data visualisation and infographics scene over the past 10 days, you can’t have failed to have come across one of the many amazing graphics that have been produced by the New York Times during the course of the Olympics.
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This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. As an economist working for the federal government in the United States who also doubles as someone trying to use new data visualization techniques, I’m often struck
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Last Friday I posted my new data visualisation project titled ‘The Pursuit of Faster’. This was a project submitted for the Visualizing.org Olympics contest.
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Last month I profiled a project titled ‘Energy technologies visualisation for the IEA’. Well, the Raureif folks have been busy and have just this week launched a stunning new data visualisation design in the form of a weather app for the iPhone called ‘Partly Cloudy’.
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After a frantic couple of weeks I have managed to submit an entry on time for the latest Visualizing.org data visualisation contest, this time around the London 2012 Olympics
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Arriving in time for the start of the Olympics today, Power the Games Live is a new development from Applied Works for the official energy provider EDF,
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