Andy Kirk, Author at Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

Visualizing.org Sprint: An experiment in collaborative visualisation

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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Announcing the Data Journalism Awards

Field News / Andy Kirk

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: Open Source data visualisation creator

3 Comments / Field News / Andy Kirk

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.

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‘Getstats’ campaign to improve how we handle numbers

1 Comment / Field News / Andy Kirk

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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The data visualisations I like: What about you?

4 Comments / Articles / Andy Kirk

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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Best of the visualisation web… January 2012 (part 2)

1 Comment / Best Ofs, Collections / Andy Kirk

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.

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Best of the visualisation web… January 2012 (part 1)

1 Comment / Best Ofs, Collections / Andy Kirk

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. If you follow me on Twitter and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.

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Winner announced! Free data visualisation training place

Announcements / Andy Kirk

Last week I celebrated this website’s second birthday and posted details of an amazing, sensational, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a lucky reader to win a prize to attend one of my ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation’ training course free of charge.

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Esquire’s ‘The United States of 2012’

Design / Andy Kirk

Esquire magazine (or more accurately the web version) has published the results of an interesting project titled ‘The United States of 2012’ where they commissioned five different mapping concepts from a range of artists and designers to “reflect the state of things this year”.

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Visualisation and Infographics at the London Transport Museum

1 Comment / Field News / Andy Kirk

Back in December I posted details of the new poster show at the London Transport Museum. Today, I was fortunate to have a spare hour to kill and this gave me a chance to fit in a rapid run around the exhibition. I have taken a number of snaps of the main infographic/visualisation related pieces,

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