Announcements

This post compiles a collection of sites that provide data, covering curated collections, data releases through Open Data movements or ‘Data-as-a-Service’ platforms.

Yesterday, 5th February 2017, marked seven years since I launched visualisingdata.com. It genuinely feels like only yesterday when I first clicked on ‘Add New’ and began the long journey towards composing over 750 posts.

A momentary vanity post, if you will oblige me. I’m delighted see that my book, ‘Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design’ has been included by Alan Smith, the Financial Times’ Data Visualisation Editor, as one of 2016’s “best books for data geeks”.

This is a short note to clarify arrangements for the two-day data visualisation workshop I have scheduled in San Francisco on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th January 2017.

A belated announcement (for those who’ve not heard) and public thank you for last week’s news that I had won the silver medal for the ‘Best Dataviz Website’ category of the 2016 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

This week marks the five year anniversary since I cleared my throat, nervously took a sip of water and stood in front of a room full of delegates to open my first ever data visualisation training workshop.

I’ve been gradually building up my schedule of public data visualisation training workshops but, whilst I mention them on social media, I forget not everyone is likely to see updates on Twitter or Facebook.

A I mentioned on Twitter earlier in the week, years after almost everybody else, I’ve decided to start an Instagram account. I’ve set out with an expressed intent as being about capturing ‘the photographic observations of life as a freelance data visualisation professional’.

I’m thrilled to learn that visualisingdata.com has been nominated in the final shortlist in the best ‘Dataviz website’ category of the KANTAR Information is Beautiful Awards for 2016.

Now that my book is seemingly starting to reach peoples’ bookshelves, I wanted to quickly reinforce one key point I make in the opening section regarding how I want people to use this book.