Last month I asked people to send me details of the locations where they would ideally be interested in attending one of my one-day ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation‘ public training courses. I have now combined the recent requests with all the previous expressions of interest and have collated a clear picture of where the most […]
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Once again it’s my pleasure to be supporting the third O’Reilly Strata Conference, which will be taking place in Santa Clara, California between February 28 and March 1 (don’t forget it’s a leap year!). Described as the ‘the home of data science’, the conference brings together some of the very best developers, data scientists, data
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Since launching my data visualisation training courses, I’ve found myself in numerous discussions about the potential scope of data visualisation as a subject in education. Specifically (and interestingly) a number of potential delegates have described their motivation being to learn the subject themselves and then find ways to impart the principles and methods to students
Open thread: Data visualisation in education? Read More »
After the November release of ITO World’s road casualty mapping service for GB and the US (the launch being timed for the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims), the BBC website is also running a special feature this week around road traffic accidents and is showcasing a number of visualisation pieces, some more
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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 November 2011.
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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 one of the latest collection from November 2011
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Having now completed most of my Autumn schedule, I am now turning my attention to plotting my next series of data visualisation training courses for the first half of 2012. Public Schedule I still have spaces available on two public training events in Derry (26th January) and London (9th February) but I am looking to line up a number
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With just a month before Christmas, the pressures of present shopping are slowly increasing as each day passes. For those of you data-heads with a particular penchant for influential German electronic pop-meisters Kraftwerk, you may be interested in the latest project from London-based ‘Data Illustrator’ Stefanie Posavec – a glossy print showing the length of
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As you will have seen from previous posts, I was very grateful to be invited to contribute to the Visualizing.org data visualisation marathon in London. This was a 24 hour visualisation contest where students from across the UK (as well as a few teams from France and Belgium) competed to take a fresh and interesting
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Today I’m at the Visualizing.org 24 hour data visualisation marathon in London. By the time this post is published I will have presented my “Data visualisation team talk” to the student participants, and hopefully provided them with a few pointers about how to undertake this challenge. One of the worst words in the world is
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