Last week I celebrated this website’s second birthday and posted details of an amazing, sensational, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a lucky reader to win a prize to attend one of my ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation’ training course free of charge.
Winner announced! Free data visualisation training place Read More »
Esquire magazine (or more accurately the web version) has published the results of an interesting project titled ‘The United States of 2012’ where they commissioned five different mapping concepts from a range of artists and designers to “reflect the state of things this year”.
Esquire’s ‘The United States of 2012’ Read More »
Back in December I posted details of the new poster show at the London Transport Museum. Today, I was fortunate to have a spare hour to kill and this gave me a chance to fit in a rapid run around the exhibition. I have taken a number of snaps of the main infographic/visualisation related pieces,
Visualisation and Infographics at the London Transport Museum Read More »
Great to see a new post from Joe Parry (somebody whose work I have followed for a number of years) announcing the launch of his new venture Cambridge Intelligence and specifically the first product KeyLines “a cutting edge visualisation software which helps you see the networks in your data”. KeyLines is an interactive software development
KeyLines: New network visualisation tool Read More »
On February 5th 2010 I published my very first Visualising Data post, focusing on a rather poor quality 3D pie chart about the Liverpool vs. Tottenham game which had taken place a couple of weeks earlier. Strange then to think that two years later Liverpool and Tottenham are scheduled to clash again tomorrow and I’m
Visualising Data is two – enter a celebratory training prize contest! Read More »
I want to share some impressive work I’ve recently come across from a Toronto-based project/group called Bio.Diaspora. Last week the team was featured in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal as part of a special report on Mass Gatherings and Health. The report focused specifically on the potential health risks posed by the mass gathering and
Bio.Diaspora: Visualising interactions between populations and travel Read More »
I’ve been contacted by Liliana Bounegru, a Project Manager from the European Journalism Centre, to help try and attract a potential contributor or contributors to the task of writing the first collaborative Data Journalism Handbook.
Opportunity to collaborate on the Data Journalism Handbook Read More »
A couple of weeks ago Tableau announced the launch of version 7.0 of their popular Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics software. To find out more about this development I invited Craig Bloodworth, a Tableau evangelist and consultant for The Information Lab to highlight some of the new data visualisation features and enhancements.
What Tableau 7.0 brings to the data visualisation table Read More »
Just come across a really interesting interactive project from Estonian Professor, Tanel Tammet, called ‘Sightsmap‘ which overlays a heatmap onto a Google map platform allowing users to pan and zoom around the globe to see the locations where the most intensely photographed areas in the world. The heatmap is a representation of the number of available Panoramio photos for
Sightsmap provides interactive ‘sightseeing heatmap’ Read More »
Just wanted to inform readers and anybody contacting me that I will be offline and out of action for the next few days as I’m moving house. I’m leaving the relative hustle and bustle of city life in Leeds to the more quaint world of Hebden Bridge, the picturesque pennine town which has a rich literary history and creative
Visualising Data is on the move – offline for a short period Read More »