Announcements

After a long time sat patiently on my would-like-to-do list I am delighted to release a new project titled ‘The Chartmaker Directory’.

Sometimes, site editors like me are ignorant to the fact their RSS feed is not working and that thousands of keen readers and potentially valuable customers are cruelly being denied access to this rich array of award-winning and award-losing content.

I recently passed the 1 year anniversary since my book was published and I was thinking about how I might mark this event. Regular visitors to the site over the past few years will know that I’m somebody who is up for running the occasional experimental or creative activity with my readers and followers.

A quite note to announce that, after quite a delay since the last update, I have finally found time to go through a bunch of bookmarks to add a bunch of previously missing or new tools to my data visualisation resources collection.

I wanted to share news of an upcoming project that I’ve been working on for far too long but finally will be able to launch in the coming few weeks: The Chartmaker Directory.

This is an appeal for anyone who has bought/read my book to possibly take out a few moments from their busy schedules to drop a short review on Amazon.

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.