Field News

This post is to share news of a free event being held in Sheffield on the afternoon (2pm to 5pm) of Tuesday 10th November 2015: “What can data visualisation do? A conversation with experts”. Tickets are limited so act now

The Bank of England has announced details of its first data visualisation competition, in conjunction with the One Bank Research Agenda conference and the release of new publicly available Bank data sets. The winning entry will receive £5000.

Since first publishing my resources collection a couple of years ago I’ve been fortunate to have had lots of startups and vendors contact me to share news about their latest features and tools.

Last year I was honoured to be invited by Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine journalist, to join a group comprising some of the very finest minds and talents in this field to help contribute some personal recommendations for the best Infographics coming out of America

After VISUALIZEDio Berlin, the second independently organized event VISUALIZEDio London is officially launched! VISUALIZEDio is a conference that explored the intersection of data, design and storytelling. Join us this year on Saturday, November 22 for our first one-day VISUALIZEDio conference in London.

I’m currently in Chicago for a couple of days to deliver my public workshop. Thanks to the recommendation of Tom Schenk Jr. I had chance to quickly see a really nice free exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation called ‘Chicago: City of big data’.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Miguel Nacenta, University of St Andrews, was one of the people behind the development of the FatFonts technique. Whilst chatting with Miguel he showed me a short video of another tool he has co-worked on developing called Transmogrifiers.

In 2012 I briefly profiled a book titled the ‘Atlas of Design’, dedicated to “showing off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design”.

The British Library will soon to be launching an exciting new season titled ‘Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight’. Running from 20th Feb to 26th May the season incorporates many events dedicated to the art and science of communicating data.

I was catching up with my January RSS feeds earlier and my attention was drawn to an unusual item that had been reeled in from a site called ‘4-traders’.