Announcements

The range of data visualisation applications, tools and libraries continues to grow and to reflect the recent additions to this field I have updated my data visualisation resources collection. There are now 351 items in this directory organised generally across the 8 groupings:

Last year I came up with a slightly random idea to collect photographs of every 2-page spread in my book in different settings around the world. As a frequent business traveller I would take some but would also invite book owners, friends and family to complete the full set

Earlier today, I noticed in my calendar that I had saved a reminder, at some point in the past, to kindly inform myself that today is the milestone of my 15,000th day on this planet. I’m not sure what the tradition is for such occasions?

I would like to invite participants to submit a 7-question, 30 second survey to help me gather some evidence about the range of scenarios in which a visualisation may be created.

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Last year I launched the #VisBookFlipBook project, an attempt to compile photographs of every 2-page spread in my book as taken by owners and readers of the book from across the globe. After an initial burst of enthusiasm, progress died, then I lapsed into pushing it down my to-do list as workload became overwhelming.

Last summer I launched the CHARTMAKER DIRECTORY, an attempt to gather and organise a useful catalogue of references that will offer a good sense of what charts can be made using which tools and, where necessary, how.

I recently posted details of a new online data visualisation course I have developed for Sage Campus that is now open for registration. To assist with the marketing of the course I was asked to work with the filming team to quickly pull together a short promotional video.

Over the past few months I’ve been working hard with the team from ‘Grow Learning’ to develop a brand new online data visualisation course to be launched and offered by Sage campus. I’m delighted to announce that registration is now open for the course opening on 25th June.

With one week to go until a Christmas and New Year’s break that can’t come soon enough I’ve been taking stock of the unfinished projects and not-yet-started work that intimidatingly occupy space on my to-do list. It has been a breathless year – a very good year – but one that has certainly led me to be behind schedule with a lot of things.