Just to bring together the fragmented updates into a single announcement, I wanted to publish details of the finalised locations/venues for my forthcoming data visualisation training events that will taken place in November/December.
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This is a final guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator, who has been keeping everybody up to date with the daily goings on at VisWeek.
VisWeek updates by Jon Schwabish: Final thoughts Read More »
This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.
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This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.
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This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.
VisWeek updates by Jon Schwabish: Day 1 Read More »
Last month I introduced the Big Data World, Europe 2012 conference, which took place this week. For those of you interesting in advancing 61 slides, here is a SlideShare version of my presentation. Andy Kirk talk at Big Data World Europe, September 2012 from Andy Kirk
Talk slides: Big Data World, Europe conference Read More »
Whilst working on my book this afternoon a thought struck me: When, where and by whom was the term ‘data visualization’ or ‘information visualization’ (give or take an S or a Z) used? Was it Tufte? Was it Bertin? Tukey, perhaps? Surely it wasn’t Florence Nightingale or William Playfair? It feels like one of the
Live post: In search of the first use of ‘Data/Information Visualization’ Read More »
Last week I was pondering the issue of data visualisation style, a quite ambiguous and hard-to-put-your-finger-on idea that can be interpreted differently depending on your perspective. To me, today, its a combination of tone-of-voice, communication technique and visual identity but tomorrow, if you asked me I might change that definition. So its a hard thing
Discussion: Defining your data visualisation style Read More »
This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. As an economist working for the federal government in the United States who also doubles as someone trying to use new data visualization techniques, I’m often struck
Guest post: How Governments can better use data visualization Read More »
Last Friday I posted my new data visualisation project titled ‘The Pursuit of Faster’. This was a project submitted for the Visualizing.org Olympics contest.
The design process behind ‘The pursuit of faster’ Read More »