Yesterday, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Susan Wojcicki & Phil Mui unveiled the release of “Flow Visualization” in Google Analytics, which helps web site owners and analysts to enhance their understanding of visitor path and goal analysis – how visitors flow through your site’s pages and how this maps on to your intended goals. Many observers […]
Google Analytics introduces ‘visitor flow’ visualisation Read More »
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I am delighted to have been approached by Editor Mac Slocum to contribute a series of ‘Visualization deconstructed’ articles for the superb O’Reilly Radar website. The first of these articles was published today, focusing on why animated geospatial data works so well.
O’Reilly Radar article: “Why animated geospatial data works” Read More »
Followers of my Twitter feed may have seen me post a link to a set of Flickr images collated by Professor Michael Stoll, of the Department of Design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Having browsed around the rest of his incredible collections and sets I decided it necessary to capture this work in a
Inspirational design photostream of Prof Michael Stoll Read More »
The excellent visualisation work of Eric Fischer will be familiar to many of you. During the summer he produced a stunning set of maps for 30 cities which displayed the locations of Twitter messages overlayed with the locations of uploaded Flickr photos. His latest project continues to explore Flickr data, this time visualising the seasonal
Visualising seasonal and temporal patterns in Flickr photos Read More »
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 2) Read More »
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 1) Read More »
With only a few weeks to go until the first set of training workshops commence, I wanted to update you on the status of the events, specifically the credit card payment options, the confirmed venues and an early sense of the potential locations for workshops in 2012. Venues Training venues have now been confirmed for the
Workshops update: Credit card, venues and future schedule Read More »
One of the questions that I am most interested in when I approach my Visualisation Insights articles concerns how people discovered the subject of data visualisation: when was it and what was the situation that led them to suddenly recognise or appreciate the existance of the subject? The moment data visualisation appeared on my radar
Open thread: When did you discover data visualisation? 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 articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from a very busy September 2011.
Best of the visualisation web… September 2011 Read More »
The news of Steve Jobs passing yesterday has been followed by a great flood of testimonials, eulogies and obituaries. Yet with the ink still drying from a similar outpouring of analysis from 6 weeks or so ago, when Jobs announced his departure from Apple, much of the narrative has already been well versed. One interesting piece of analysis
“Dullards who believe a distinction between style and subtance” Read More »