Lonely Planet are working on an exciting new visual guide to the world, titled “How to Land a Jumbo Jet” based on a unique collection of cultural and travel-inspired visualisations. To help create this book they want to crowd-source innovative ideas and creations from across the visualisation and design community. As noted on Infosthetics, visualisation […]
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This is a follow-up post to my eighth article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published earlier this week. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insights article, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Why did I choose this subject? I first came across
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I’d recommend you try and get hold of a copy of the winter issue (number 78) of Eye magazine, the international review of graphic design, which is dedicated to the subject of Information Design and includes a special 26 page pull-out feature. Information Design – Not so much a specialist genre, more an essential fact
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from January 2011
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This is the eighth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together
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This is the final guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference has been taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s
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Those of you who followed my South Africa 2010 World Cup posts during last summer (part 1, part 2 and part 3) will possibly remember one interactive visualisation design in particular, a World Cup schedule by Spanish daily Marca. Amongst many different visualisation approaches to bringing the World Cup to readers from the World’s media
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This is a guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, the winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference is taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s work
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Yesterday saw the high profile launch of the Government’s Police.uk portal for exploring local crime and policing information for England and Wales, a huge step forward in the ongoing movement towards open data. The site fundamentally acts as a police information portal, providing contact details for local policing team, twitter feeds relating to local issues
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This is a guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, the winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference is taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s work
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