This week has seen the launch of The Miso Project, an “open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content”. It is a joint development between The Guardian (with Alastair Dant and Alex Graul at the helm) and Boston-based Bocoup (led by Irene Ros). The first set of libraries […]
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Back in July of last year I wrote about the launch of visual.ly, the gallery/community platform for showcasing data visualisation and infographic work. At the time the most intriguing footnote to this launch was the promised release of an automated, infographic creation tool which was scheduled for late 2011. There’s been a bit of a
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If there is one thing dominating the lips, or at least typing fingers, of data visualisation followers this week it is contests. I’ve already briefly mentioned in my last post the Data Stories podcast discussion about contests and awards, and this evening Twitter timelines are collectively shaking their fists in reaction to the latest Information
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In the latest Datastories podcast, from the “Exotic European Voiced” due of Bertini and Stefaner, there was some interesting discussion about the rights and wrongs of visualisation contests and the debate touched on the concept of awards.
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Datawrapper is a brand new tool unveiled by ABZV, a German training institution for newspaper journalists, but primarily the result of the vision, talent and commitment of Mirko Lorenz and Nicolas Kayser-Bril.
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Just a quick mention for a great new(ish) site I was alerted to. Getstats is a 10-year campaign launched by the Royal Statistical Society (UK) to improve the public’s capabilities with numbers, particularly statistics, probability and risk, across our daily lives. The site contains frequent blog posts about contemporary stories or issues relating to statistics
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Back in December I posted details of the new poster show at the London Transport Museum. Today, I was fortunate to have a spare hour to kill and this gave me a chance to fit in a rapid run around the exhibition. I have taken a number of snaps of the main infographic/visualisation related pieces,
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Great to see a new post from Joe Parry (somebody whose work I have followed for a number of years) announcing the launch of his new venture Cambridge Intelligence and specifically the first product KeyLines “a cutting edge visualisation software which helps you see the networks in your data”. KeyLines is an interactive software development
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I’ve been contacted by Liliana Bounegru, a Project Manager from the European Journalism Centre, to help try and attract a potential contributor or contributors to the task of writing the first collaborative Data Journalism Handbook.
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A couple of weeks ago Tableau announced the launch of version 7.0 of their popular Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics software. To find out more about this development I invited Craig Bloodworth, a Tableau evangelist and consultant for The Information Lab to highlight some of the new data visualisation features and enhancements.
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