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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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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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
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
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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.
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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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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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