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This week Tableau are holding their inaugral European customer conference in Amsterdam. I’m delighted that Stephen and Eileen McDaniel of Freakalytics have provided key updates from the event and have kindly allowed me to share their observations. On Tuesday I published the headlines from Day 1, published below are updates from Day 2’s main event. […]

This week Tableau are holding their inaugral European customer conference in Amsterdam. With a wide range of hands-on training, top quality keynote speakers, one-on-one expertise opportunities and in-depth break-outs its sure to be an excellent event. The much anticipated release of Tableau 6.1 will also be showcased. I’m delighted to say that Stephen and Eileen

In my recently published Part 2 of the essential collection of visualisation resources I included HTML5 as a potential important language for creating visualisations. Having received some constructive comments and feedback from valued readers, I have decided to open up a discussion about whether to maintain HTML5 in this essential list, refine its description or

This is a follow-up post to my eighth article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published earlier this week. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insights article, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Why did I choose this subject? I first came across

This is the eighth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together

This is the final guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference has been taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s

Those of you who followed my South Africa 2010 World Cup posts during last summer (part 1, part 2 and part 3) will possibly remember one interactive visualisation design in particular, a World Cup schedule by Spanish daily Marca. Amongst many different visualisation approaches to bringing the World Cup to readers from the World’s media

This is a guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, the winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference is taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s work

This is a guest/cross-post by Jan Willem Tulp, the winner of my recent contest to win a full pass to the O’Reilly Strata conference. The conference is taking place this week and Jan has kindly offered to share a short summary on each day of the conference. You can find out more about Jan’s work