Announcements

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Last week I announced a quickfire contest where I was going to give away a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180 to one lucky person. To enter, all you had to do was submit a comment beginning with the phrase “Winning a 3M PocketProjector MP180 would be fantastic because…” and then provide a compelling reason why

Following on from my review, I’m excited to announce a quick and easy-to-enter contest where one lucky reader will win a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180, courtesy of 3M and FreshNetworks. To enter all you need to do is submit a comment against this blog post. The comment should begin with the phrase “Winning a

I was thrilled to hear today that my entry (embedded below) was awarded a runners-up prize in Visualizing.org’s UN Global Pulse visualisation challenge. The purpose of the challenge was to explore survey data gathered by UN Global Pulse about perceptions of economic impact across five countries: India, Iraq, Mexico, Uganda and Ukraine. The jury’s comment

Today happens to be 18 months since I launched Visualising Data and I’m happy to see that all the important statistics are telling me it is going in the right direction and seems to be well received. I wanted to express my genuine thanks to everybody who has read, visited, subscribed, followed, re-tweeted, shared, commented,

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

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

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

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