Just wanted to announce that, over the next few weeks, you may see my name and my postings pop-up in a couple of extra places. Firstly, I’m excited to have been invited by Andrew Vande Moere’s to perform a guest editor role on his immense Infosthetics site whilst he takes a vacation. I’m immensely grateful to Andrew […]
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I’m delighted to share with you details of my entry for the Visualizing.org UN Global Pulse visualisation challenge. The title of the work is “Giving Voices to the Vulnerable: The Economic Crisis” and explores survey data gathered by UN Global Pulse about perceptions of economic impact across five countries: India, Iraq, Mexico, Uganda and Ukraine.
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You may recall my promotion of the inaugural O’Reilly Strata “Making Data Work” conference, which took place in January of this year and was, by many accounts a really successful event. I’m excited to share details of the follow up event which is taking place in New York, between September 19 and 23. The first
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One of the most interesting and inspiring consequences of running a website and writing a blog comes when you explore the geographical spread of visitors who view your content. At the last count, people from 177 different countries have visited my site since its inception at the start of last year. My global ignorance
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I am excited to share the news that I will be launching my public data visualisation training workshops in Autumn 2011. Initially, these 1-day introductory sessions will be available across the UK and Ireland, but I will be looking to spread the offering to Europe, North America and beyond during 2012. I am now collecting
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So long as the ash cloud patterns stay consistent with the forecasts, I’m really excited to be making my first visit to California and spending the next couple of weeks on a bit of a road trip from San Francisco down to Los Angeles, via the coast route. So things will be quiet round here
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I’m delighted to share details with you of a challenging visualisation project I’ve been working on in collaboration with the team at the engine room. The title of the work is “Protests and the Media” and explores the recent uprising in the Middle East and North Africa, termed the Arab Spring. This data visualisation project
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Tableau Software is hosting its first ever, at the Hotel Movenpick, Amsterdam on 9th to 11th May with what promises to be an exceptionally packed and rewarding schedule of sessions and speakers.
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Tomorrow will see the launch of a new series entitled “the essential collection of visualisation resources”. This will be a multi-post series designed to share with readers an inspiring collection of the most important, effective, useful, practical and affordable data visualisation resources.
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Just wrapping up my promotion of the Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference taking place on 1-3 February. Last week I launched a quickfire Twitter raffle for one lucky person to win a free full pass to the Strata conference. Thanks to all who entered by re-tweeting or mentioning the post. Entry closed at 12:00 UK
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