Stephen Few has published an article today criticising the state of research in the information visualisation field. I’m a great admirer of Stephen. His work was largely the reason I discovered this subject, he’s a terrific guy to meet in person and I have huge respect for the clarity and conviction of his principles and […]
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The IEEE VisWeek Conference 2011 is taking place in Providence, RI this week (23rd to 28th). VisWeek 2011 is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, technology and theory. The week is organized around three separate conferences IEEE Visualization 2011,
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David B. Sparks, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, has today published a fascinating set of experiments using ‘Isarithmic’ maps to visualise US party identification.
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The IEEE VisWeek Conference 2011 is taking place in Providence, RI this week (23rd to 28th). VisWeek 2011 is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, technology and theory. The week is organized around three separate conferences IEEE Visualization 2011,
VisWeek updates by Jérôme Cukier: Day 1 Read More »
Yesterday, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Susan Wojcicki & Phil Mui unveiled the release of “Flow Visualization” in Google Analytics, which helps web site owners and analysts to enhance their understanding of visitor path and goal analysis – how visitors flow through your site’s pages and how this maps on to your intended goals. Many observers
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As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I am delighted to have been approached by Editor Mac Slocum to contribute a series of ‘Visualization deconstructed’ articles for the superb O’Reilly Radar website. The first of these articles was published today, focusing on why animated geospatial data works so well.
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Followers of my Twitter feed may have seen me post a link to a set of Flickr images collated by Professor Michael Stoll, of the Department of Design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Having browsed around the rest of his incredible collections and sets I decided it necessary to capture this work in a
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The excellent visualisation work of Eric Fischer will be familiar to many of you. During the summer he produced a stunning set of maps for 30 cities which displayed the locations of Twitter messages overlayed with the locations of uploaded Flickr photos. His latest project continues to explore Flickr data, this time visualising the seasonal
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The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 2) Read More »
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 1) Read More »
