Fascinated to read in the mainstream press about Tableau’s decision to remove a series of visualisations published by WikiLeaks using Tableau Public, following pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman. Elissa Fink of Tableau has published an explanation of the background behind this decision. The key excerpts from this explanation are: Our terms of service require that […]
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A couple of items of news have popped up this week which give further evidence of the growing mainstream appreciation and appeal of visualisation. The fact both involve the BBC is very encouraging and continues their recent coverage of this subject following their Newsnight programme featuring David McCandless back in August. The Joy of Stats
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It almost passed me by unnoticed but I realised I made my 100th blog post yesterday and so I felt justified to compile a self-indulgent post to celebrate the fact. For those of you from non-cricket playing nations, 100 not out is terminology used to describe a player who has reached the treasured milestone of
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I spent a couple of days last week in Bristol at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)/Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Workshop on “The Challenges of Visualising Biological Data“. It was a great privilege to have had my expression of interest converted into an invitation to this (possibly) one-off event and I
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You may have seen a recent post where I published details of a great event being held in February 2011. The O’Reilly Strata ‘Making Data Work’ conference will bring together a unique blend of professionals, experts and innovators from all walks of the data world, including a very strong visualisation presence. For those who can
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This is a follow-up post to my fourth 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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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 October 2010
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I’m delighted to have agreed a media partnership with O’Reilly to help promote a great conference coming up in 2011. The inaugural O’Reilly Strata Conference ‘Making Data Work’ will be held from February 1st to 3rd 2011 in the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, California. I will be announcing details next
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This is the fourth 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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I’ve come across this infographic produced in a collaboration between visualisation studio JESS3 and Yahoo! News Ask America and find it difficult to interpret. This is a shame because the subject matter is clearly interesting and important to many people but it has been presented with a potentially misleading design. Whilst the graphic scores highly
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