One of the matters that I cover at the start of my data visualisation training courses is a brief reflection on visualisation’s popularity in a mainstream sense and how it has now penetrated (and continues) parts of culture and society that it would never really have managed to do even 5 years ago.
Visualisation in the mainstream: Jimmy Carr tax infographic Read More »
The smart folks over at Stamen Design have come up with some more of their mapping goodness with a great tool that I’m pretty sure everybody will appreciate: a travel planner that includes a layer of weather forecast data for your journey
Stamen’s travel planner includes weather forecast Read More »
We’ve seen a number of recent developments where particle flow has been visualised in fascinating ways to depict natural phenomena such as wind, the Oceans and water.
Tyne: Visualisation of data from Newcastle’s River Tyne Read More »
Santiago Ortiz, genuinely one of the most creative and interesting freelance designers practicing in the field right now, has published a new interactive project: the ‘Data visualization references network’.
Santiago Ortiz’s ‘Data visualization references network’ project Read More »
After 11 months and two weeks of almost unbroken work, I’ve cleared things with the boss and tomorrow I will be going on holiday. It will be great to get away, lap up the sun and just exist in splendid, quiet isolation for a couple of weeks in order to fully recharge the batteries… I’ve
Those of you who visit the site regularly and follow my tweets will know that I’ve been busy on my Spring training schedule and this continues into the next couple of months with numerous public and private training events lined up. Whilst the schedule is packed for the immediate future, I now want to put
Register your location for my next training schedule! Read More »
Just a quick announcement to share that I’m going to be presenting at the inaugural meetup of the Chicago Data Visualization Group on Thursday 14th June from around 6:00pm. The location details are still be confirmed but as soon as they are, I’ll update this post or you can see information on the Meetup page.
Chicago data visualisation meetup Read More »
The issue of plagiarism vs. inspiration is not a new topic, it has been with us for years and is the fundamental basis of copyright and IP, but it is an increasingly important consideration for us in the visualisation field.
The fine line between plagiarism and inspiration Read More »
Those of you who have watched the video footage from the recent SEE conference may have seen Manuel Lima’s talk on the ‘The Power of Networks: Knowledge in an age of infinite interconnectedness’.
Manuel Lima’s talk: ‘The Power of Networks’ Read More »
In recent months we’ve seen a number of new developments on the tools side of the visualisation field. We’ve had Datawrapper, the Miso project and are still waiting in anticipation for the releases of polychart and plot.io. Today sees the launch of Quadrigram, a ‘Visual Programming Environment to gather, shape, and share living data’. Quadrigram
Quadrigram: New visual programming environment launches Read More »