To reflect on a particularly volatile past 12 months economically-speaking, the BBC has published a collection of graphs nominated by some of the top economists around the world as being “the graph which had the greatest impact on them, which they thought best explains the current financial situation, or which tells us something significant about […]
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I spend most of my browsing life in Google Chrome these days and I’m a less angry more satisfied person because of it. But only today have I ever never noticed this handy little built-in visualisation feature. When you run a ‘find’ operation for a given term, the vertical scroll bar highlights shows you where,
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Last month I asked people to send me details of the locations where they would ideally be interested in attending one of my one-day ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation‘ public training courses. I have now combined the recent requests with all the previous expressions of interest and have collated a clear picture of where the most
Data visualisation training course locations (Jan-Jun 2012) Read More »
Once again it’s my pleasure to be supporting the third O’Reilly Strata Conference, which will be taking place in Santa Clara, California between February 28 and March 1 (don’t forget it’s a leap year!). Described as the ‘the home of data science’, the conference brings together some of the very best developers, data scientists, data
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Since launching my data visualisation training courses, I’ve found myself in numerous discussions about the potential scope of data visualisation as a subject in education. Specifically (and interestingly) a number of potential delegates have described their motivation being to learn the subject themselves and then find ways to impart the principles and methods to students
Open thread: Data visualisation in education? Read More »
After the November release of ITO World’s road casualty mapping service for GB and the US (the launch being timed for the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims), the BBC website is also running a special feature this week around road traffic accidents and is showcasing a number of visualisation pieces, some more
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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 part two of the latest collection from November 2011.
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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 part one of the latest collection from November 2011
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Having now completed most of my Autumn schedule, I am now turning my attention to plotting my next series of data visualisation training courses for the first half of 2012. Public Schedule I still have spaces available on two public training events in Derry (26th January) and London (9th February) but I am looking to line up a number
Help shape my training schedule for early 2012… Read More »
With just a month before Christmas, the pressures of present shopping are slowly increasing as each day passes. For those of you data-heads with a particular penchant for influential German electronic pop-meisters Kraftwerk, you may be interested in the latest project from London-based ‘Data Illustrator’ Stefanie Posavec – a glossy print showing the length of
Data-design related gift for Christmas? Read More »