I spent a couple of days last week in Bristol at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)/Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Workshop on “The Challenges of Visualising Biological Data“. It was a great privilege to have had my expression of interest converted into an invitation to this (possibly) one-off event and I […]
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This is a follow-up post to my fourth 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
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This is the fourth 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
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I’ve come across this infographic produced in a collaboration between visualisation studio JESS3 and Yahoo! News Ask America and find it difficult to interpret. This is a shame because the subject matter is clearly interesting and important to many people but it has been presented with a potentially misleading design. Whilst the graphic scores highly
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This is a follow-up post to my third 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. Visualisations Reflections #3 Blog Editor | Benjamin Wiederkehr Why did
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This is the third part in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of these posts 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
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One of the many RSS subscriptions that keep my Google Reader working overtime is Jan Schultink’s Sticky Slides blog, which provides a lot of useful advice around presentation design. Today Jan has published a post comparing two alternative chart designs that present the same data from a survey question. Jan’s view is that the second
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The September 2010 issue of Creative Review is out now and includes two sections dedicated to data visualisation. The first is an article by Nicholas Felton (both the designer and subject of the popular Felton Report series) which follows up the July release of the Little Book of Shocking Global Facts and the reaction to
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This is a follow-up post to my second article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published early this week. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insightsarticle, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Visualisation Reflections #2 Independent Content Curator | Tiago Veloso Why did
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This is the second part of my recently launched 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
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