Here are some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during April 2010. I don’t necessarily agree with all the principles, opinions or advice presented in these links but sometimes consuming such information can only help enhance your knowledge on a subject:
Best of the visualisation web… April 2010 Read More »
I’ve come across an infographic today (via cool infographics) that was originally published in February on Focus.com, a business expertise exchange and research service. I’ve shown the full length of the graphic below, a larger version can be accessed here.
The state of the internet Read More »
The Guardian has put together a photo gallery showing shots of some of the election night TV coverage through the years right up to some of the technology likely to be on show tonight. The coverage choice for UK viewers this evening and throughout most of tomorrow will be between BBC1, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Sky
Election day coverage Read More »
Visitors to the site will notice a new collection of icons and links on the right sidebar that connect to the Visualising Data social web accounts and channels. These provide a range of different platforms to digest and access the opinion, information, examples and resources that I publish on this site. The RSS feeds have been
Visualising Data in all shapes and sizes! Read More »
With only a few hours to go before the UK general election polls open, the level of interest and media exposure is reaching fever pitch. It is quite simply the closest, most interesting and important election many of us have ever been experienced. As I have posted throughout the campaigning period, the news and media sites
Counting down the hours to election day Read More »
Here are some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during March 2010
Best of the visualisation web… March 2010 Read More »
Another interesting challenge presented by Nathan at FlowingData to improve the design and clarity of message of the graph presented below which displays the results of a study investigating obesity rates at different ages across people who were born in different cohorts of years.
Obesity prevalence graph makeover Read More »
There has already been a great deal of coverage across visualisation-related blogs and news sites about the reaction of General McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to a slide he was was presented portraying the complexity of American military strategy. I can’t avoid the temptation to add my own contribution to
PowerPoint hysteria Read More »
It is disappointing to hear about the escalation of the stand-off between Adobe and Apple with regards to Flash, the multimedia platform that enables designers to develop rich, interactive web content. The latest episode being the news that Adobe are no longer pursuing the development of a tool that will allow Flash developers to port software
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As I have mentioned several times before, my post strategy for this blog aims to minimise lazy repackaging and regurgitating of posts from other sites. It gets very boring when you end up reading about the same article several times across different sites and so I don’t want to add to this.
Best of the visualisation web… February 2010 Read More »