Announcements

I wanted to share a brief update, which is a rubbish label to attach to this post but I’m all out of other better ways to position it.

2018 was a milestone year with regards to delivering data visualisation training. I ran 38 different events around the world, of which 32 were private events and 6 were public courses, with training delivered to 1001 delegates in total.

I’m delighted to announce that the second edition of my book “Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design” will be published in July 2019.

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.