Announcements

Last month I launched a contest based around the theme of ‘#graphiti’, inviting people to send in visualisation modified with their doodle-based daubings. Having really enjoyed running that contest I checked with my publishers to see if we could run two more before publication date and they were up for it!

A couple of weeks ago I launched a small contest inviting folks to send me examples of graphiti – the clever ways can you think of combining the world of doodling and visualisation. The winner would receive a free copy of my upcoming book as soon as it is published.

As my closest school mates will attest, one of my favourite pastimes at school was doodling in textbooks (sorry teachers/authors/publishers but I couldn’t help it) with our French textbook my personal favourite canvas.

As this site enters its 7th year I’ve got a lot of new plans that are gradually developing in the background with the singular aim of enlightening and inspiring my treasured readers.

Relating To Data: understanding data through visualisation is a network of three funded PhD studentships which focuses on how people relate to data through their visualisation, the narratives and meanings people attach to visualisations and the potential understanding produced by them.

After a few people kindly mentioned and shared details about my new book being available for pre-ordering I thought it would be a good time to post a brief update on its progress.

It is around this time of the year when I take a quick peek over the figurative fence at my plans for 2016 and this means I need to plot out my schedule of public training events.

A couple of weeks ago I shared news that this site had made it onto the shortlist in the ‘Best Dataviz Website’ category for the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. I am enormously surprised and equally delighted to have discovered that visualisingdata.com has been announced as the winner!

I’m thrilled to learn that visualisingdata.com has been nominated in the final shortlist in the best ‘Dataviz website’ category of the KANTAR Information is Beautiful Awards for 2015.

Just a small personal announcement to share how thrilled I am to have been asked to teach on a brand new Masters programme at the estimable Imperial College Business School. . I will be jointly teaching the Data Visualisation module that runs during January and February alongside the excellent Marc Streit.