I feel compelled to share and briefly discuss this, even though it is getting plenty of column inches already via Twitter/blogs. It is an infographic published on visual.ly and produced for Microsoft to promote their cloud computing in the Asia Pacific.
Can a graphic be SO bad it starts to become good? Read More »
During my recent stint as guest-editor on Infosthetics, I profiled a new tool called DataAppeal which allows you to upload and map geospatial data in three-dimension on top of a Google Earth map.
DataAppeal maps US east coast earthquake Read More »
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, published details of his 2011 ‘State of the Word’, an annual overview of the headlines, success stories, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. Part of this narrative was based on results from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey, which got over
‘State of the Word’: What can you do with this WordPress survey data? Read More »
Last week I announced a quickfire contest where I was going to give away a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180 to one lucky person. To enter, all you had to do was submit a comment beginning with the phrase “Winning a 3M PocketProjector MP180 would be fantastic because…” and then provide a compelling reason why
Announcing the winner of the 3M PocketProjector MP180 giveaway! Read More »
A few weeks ago I published details of the O’Reilly Strata Conference event which is taking place in New York, between September 19 and 23. The finalised line up of speakers, sessions and topics has now been confirmed for the main part of the conference, “Making Data Work”, and I thought I would share my
Data Viz Schedule for O’Reilly Strata Conference Read More »
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from July 2011.
Best of the visualisation web… July 2011 Read More »
Following on from my review, I’m excited to announce a quick and easy-to-enter contest where one lucky reader will win a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180, courtesy of 3M and FreshNetworks. To enter all you need to do is submit a comment against this blog post. The comment should begin with the phrase “Winning a
Submit a comment to enter 3M PocketProjector MP180 giveaway! Read More »
Last week I published a review of Visualize This, the new visualisation book and I’m continuing on the review trail today but this time its about a very different subject. The 3M PocketProjector MP180 is a gadget that will be extremely useful to any visualisation or design professionals who need a hyper-portable presentation solution. I was
Gadget Review – The 3M PocketProjector MP180 Read More »
I was thrilled to hear today that my entry (embedded below) was awarded a runners-up prize in Visualizing.org’s UN Global Pulse visualisation challenge. The purpose of the challenge was to explore survey data gathered by UN Global Pulse about perceptions of economic impact across five countries: India, Iraq, Mexico, Uganda and Ukraine. The jury’s comment
Visualizing.org Competition Runner-up! Read More »
Today happens to be 18 months since I launched Visualising Data and I’m happy to see that all the important statistics are telling me it is going in the right direction and seems to be well received. I wanted to express my genuine thanks to everybody who has read, visited, subscribed, followed, re-tweeted, shared, commented,
The ways you can follow and interact with Visualising Data Read More »
