Data visualisation training workshops schedule 2011
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Google Correlate matches search trends based on drawn data series
Google Correlate is an interesting new experiment on Google Labs which allows you to draw a data series and get back results of search query trends which match your drawn pattern. As the diagram above shows, you use a pen tool to sketch out an interesting curve shape and then press the Correlate! button to
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Interactive Twitter visualisation maps UK eyesight
TwitterVision is a novel research project commissioned by UK laser eye surgery specialists Ultralase which aims to reveal the state of the nation’s eyesight using Twitter to plot people’s eye prescriptions. The application merges user-submitted prescription data from structured tweets with Ultralase’s own in-house data, in order to visualise the UK’s eyesight quality in an
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Data visualisation stories from… India, by Ananth Mani
A couple of months ago I launched my appeal for data visualisation stories from around the world. The purpose of this series is to invite designers, journalists, academics, bloggers, analysts or just simply residents, from as many different countries as possible, to illuminate the rest of us with their observations about the visualisation scene in
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Data visualisation stories from… Brazil, by Alberto Cairo
A couple of months ago I launched my appeal for data visualisation stories from around the world. The purpose of this series is to invite designers, journalists, academics, bloggers, analysts or just simply residents, from as many different countries as possible, to illuminate the rest of us with their observations about the visualisation scene in
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Send me a pic of your design workspace!
Two posts from different feeds have combined to inspire me to ask this question and find out, from those of you out there who do design work, what working environments and workspaces you perform in. Firstly, I saw this review of a standing desk on Core77. I’m at the beginning of the tiresome process of selling
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Can a graphic be SO bad it starts to become good?
I feel compelled to share and briefly discuss this, even though it is getting plenty of column inches already via Twitter/blogs. It is an infographic published on visual.ly and produced for Microsoft to promote their cloud computing in the Asia Pacific.
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DataAppeal maps US east coast earthquake
During my recent stint as guest-editor on Infosthetics, I profiled a new tool called DataAppeal which allows you to upload and map geospatial data in three-dimension on top of a Google Earth map.
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‘State of the Word’: What can you do with this WordPress survey data?
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, published details of his 2011 ‘State of the Word’, an annual overview of the headlines, success stories, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. Part of this narrative was based on results from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey, which got over
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Announcing the winner of the 3M PocketProjector MP180 giveaway!
Last week I announced a quickfire contest where I was going to give away a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180 to one lucky person. To enter, all you had to do was submit a comment beginning with the phrase “Winning a 3M PocketProjector MP180 would be fantastic because…” and then provide a compelling reason why
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