This is a follow-up post to my sixth 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? Recalling the purpose of […]
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Following my recent visualisation contest I am delighted to announce that, thanks to the kind folks at O’Reilly, I have a second free pass to give away for one lucky person to attend the Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference in February. With time running out before the event kicks off on the 1st February I’m
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This is the sixth 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 a follow-up post to my fifth article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published just before Christmas. 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 hope all readers and visitors have had a pleasant break over the past week or so. Things have been pretty quiet on this site and recently across the blogosphere (hate that word but it does the job) but judging by the increased number of feeds and tweets I’ve been picking up today, it seems
This is the fifth 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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Its been a great start to the week in the world of visualisation with Paul Butler’s terrific design showing some fascinating patterns of Facebook friends and Nathan Yau reminding us of some of the best work that has taken place this year. Now, the New York Times graphics team have joined the party with the
Mapping America: More visualisation brilliance from NYT Read More »
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 November 2010
Best of the visualisation web… November 2010 Read More »
On Friday I announced the two finalists battling it out in my ‘visualisations in the wild’ contest. Over the weekend and right up to an hour ago I’ve been inundated with email messages, tweets and post comments from readers casting their vote for which visualisation they believe best captures the essence of this competition. The
‘Visualisations in the wild’ contest: The winner! Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I launched a contest for one lucky reader to win a full conference pass to the O’Reilly Strata ‘Making Data Work’ conference taking place in Santa Clara, CA in February 2011.
‘Visualisations in the wild’ contest final: vote for your winner! Read More »