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,
Monitoring live energy usage at London’s Olympic landmarks Read More »
I was recently interviewed by Kyle Ellis for the excellent Society of News Design (SND) website, to discuss data visualisation and the Olympics. Anyway, if you haven’t had quite enough of my thoughts and opinions of late, then do take a look!
Interviewed for the SND website Read More »
The Wall Street Journal have tonight released a massive, immersive and ambitious data visualisation project entitled ‘Political Moneyball’, which visualises over a million records to reveal the networks and relationships that exist behind political contributions.
WSJ’s new project: ‘Political Moneyball’ Read More »
Just a quick post to respond to a piece I’ve just been sent because it reinforces one of the issues I point out in my training sessions. The graphic was produced by the BBC in reaction to Bradley Wiggins’ victory at the Tour de France, in an attempt to highlight the UK’s long wait for
Problems with interpreting multiple-colour legends Read More »
Over the past few months its been hard to ignore the quantity of stories, incidents and awful mis-judgments that highlight a certain under-representation and sub-standard treatment of women amongst the science and technology sectors
Discussion: Is data visualisation gender blind? Read More »
The London 2012 Olympic Games is nearly upon us and, naturally, in the lead up to such a major sporting event that will generate incredible quantities of data and create fantastic opportunities for analysis, there are a number of interesting visualisation and infographic developments making their way around the field.
’emoto’: Visualising the emotional response to London 2012 Read More »
Back in May I invited people interested in my data visualisation training courses to register their preferred location with me so that I could start to design my next schedule of events based on where the main clusters of potential interest were. Here’s an intermediate update to give people a sense of how things are looking.
Announcing my next data vis training locations Read More »
Yesterday evening, on a train journey home, I was musing about the reading I need to line up over the summer. One of the subjects that jumped to the front of my mind was that of typography.
Improving my knowledge on typography in data visualisation Read More »
With the start of the 2012 London Olympics fast approaching, the quantity of infographics and visualisations about the games are naturally popping up everywhere.
Minimalist Olympic rings design – but is it accurate? 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: January to June 2012 Read More »