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On Friday I had the pleasure of delivering a webinar presentation hosted by Sage, my book publishers and organisers of my new online training course. The title of my talk was ‘Data Visualisation: A Game of Decisions’.

Almost one month ago I tweeted my contempt for radial bar charts, having come across a particularly egregious case. It seemed to gain a bit of traction on social media but was also met by genuine queries as to my reasoning for this disdain.

Earlier today I had the pleasure of delivering a second webinar presentation for Tableau this year. The title of my talk was ‘The Design of Nothing’.

One of the standard pieces of advice I (and most others in a similar position) give to people looking to develop their data visualisation skills is to constantly seek opportunities to practice. Every task is different, every dataset presents new challenges

It is approaching the one year anniversary of my book being released in the wild. Though I will be doing something to mark this milestone in a couple of weeks, I wanted to share a one-page extract concerning a topic that has become ever more important since I wrote it.

Yesterday, I came across an example of a bivariate choropleth map produced by Quartz. It isn’t an approach you see deployed too often so I was curious about what people thought about them on Twitter.

Earlier today I had the pleasure of being invited back by Tableau to deliver a webinar presentation. The title of my talk was ‘The Seven Hats of Visualisation Design: A 2017 Reboot’.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a short talk at the Data Summit 17 conference, part of the Data Fest 2017 festival in Edinburgh. My talk was titled ‘The Good, the Bad and the Greys of Data Visualisation Design’

I want to reflect on another occasion where the innocent intent of a chart has been at odds with the perceived incompetence claimed by a snarling audience. This is something of a companion piece to a similarly-motivated post I published almost three years ago.

Of all the graphics produced before, during and after the election (a selection here) it is fair to say the decision by the New York Times team to use ‘gauge’ charts caused quite a stir.