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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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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I’m very excited to be making my first ever visit to New York in a few days time. Besides trying to fit in 2 weeks work into 5 days, every other spare minute is being taken up organising a military-like itinerary to ensure I don’t miss out on a single sight or activity whilst I’m
We’ll be back after a short break… Read More »
I’m allowing a bit of self indulgence today as I celebrate 6 months of Visualising Data. These first 6 months have seen a steady but satisfying growth in visitors, page views, subscribers and followers across the various ways of consuming my posts. Some of the key metrics used to track my site’s growth are strangely
Visualising Data is 6 months old! Read More »
No, I’m not launching a career in the blues, but as I have done on a couple of occasions in the past, and more for my own benefit than anybody else, I just wanted to capture some thoughts about the status and progress of the site. Feeds Stats I woke up this morning… and discovered I
Woke up this morning… Read More »
Lazy pun, I know, but it’s hard not to be lethargic after the fantastic weather we’ve had here in England. According to records it is the first consecutive Friday, Saturday and Sunday sequence where we have had nice weather since 1836. That’s not entirely true but it feels like it. Anyway, whilst this post is
Visitors to the site will notice a new collection of icons and links on the right sidebar that connect to the Visualising Data social web accounts and channels. These provide a range of different platforms to digest and access the opinion, information, examples and resources that I publish on this site. The RSS feeds have been
Visualising Data in all shapes and sizes! Read More »
I wrote a post in early March entitled ‘One month in…‘ which provided some observations about the site’s progress at the end of its first month. At the time I suggested I wouldn’t be writing these every month, and I won’t do it forever, but I’m going to continue for a while at least because
I’m currently making a few cosmetic changes to the site, refining the header and some of the WordPress templates , developing a logo, installing a range of plugins to enhance the usability of the site etc. I have also buckled under the weight of demand (a whole 3 requests) to set up an accompanying Visualising Data
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Not going to do this all the time, it probably makes for a boring read, but with one month elapsed since this site went live and I published my first post, I thought I’d make some observations… Its harder work writing posts than I expected, especially when you want to strive for fairly original content