Back in November 2011 you may recall Visualizing.org ran a number of visualisation marathon events for students to compete in 24 hour competitions. Having attended and spoken at the London event I felt qualified to share my thoughts on the event shortly after. In February, Enrico published a post on his great Fell In Love […]
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As the occasionally elusive Pamplonan sun sets on Malofiej 20, I wanted to share my experiences of these past seven days which have formed the best week of my professional life to date. What is Malofiej? For those of you reading who are unaware of Malofiej, it is the premier gathering for the world’s newspaper
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Back in December I expressed my great delight at having been invited to judge, speak and attend the 20th Malofiej Infographics World Summit. Well, time has sped by and on Saturday I will be flying over to Pamplona to kick off this prestigious week long event – as Robert Kosara put it, the Pulitzer Prize of Information Graphics.
Malofiej, Big Data Con and other site news Read More »
Back in July of last year I wrote about the launch of visual.ly, the gallery/community platform for showcasing data visualisation and infographic work. At the time the most intriguing footnote to this launch was the promised release of an automated, infographic creation tool which was scheduled for late 2011. There’s been a bit of a
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If there is one thing dominating the lips, or at least typing fingers, of data visualisation followers this week it is contests. I’ve already briefly mentioned in my last post the Data Stories podcast discussion about contests and awards, and this evening Twitter timelines are collectively shaking their fists in reaction to the latest Information
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In the latest Datastories podcast, from the “Exotic European Voiced” due of Bertini and Stefaner, there was some interesting discussion about the rights and wrongs of visualisation contests and the debate touched on the concept of awards.
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Datawrapper is a brand new tool unveiled by ABZV, a German training institution for newspaper journalists, but primarily the result of the vision, talent and commitment of Mirko Lorenz and Nicolas Kayser-Bril.
Datawrapper: Open Source data visualisation creator Read More »
Just a quick mention for a great new(ish) site I was alerted to. Getstats is a 10-year campaign launched by the Royal Statistical Society (UK) to improve the public’s capabilities with numbers, particularly statistics, probability and risk, across our daily lives. The site contains frequent blog posts about contemporary stories or issues relating to statistics
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When you run a blog you are using this platform as a shop window to share your ideas, inspirations and thoughts. Eventually, after a certain amount of time and, I guess, success, you are lucky enough to establish enough of a profile that people start to invite you proactively for your opinions on subjects, without
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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 January 2012.
Best of the visualisation web… January 2012 (part 2) Read More »