Here’s a nice little video wrap-up of 2011 from the splendid people at Visualizing.org, providing a quick look through the year’s events using their visualisation contests and uploaded visualisation projects to tell the story… You can navigate through a gallery of all the projects displayed in the video here.
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Today I’m at the Visualizing.org 24 hour data visualisation marathon in London. By the time this post is published I will have presented my “Data visualisation team talk” to the student participants, and hopefully provided them with a few pointers about how to undertake this challenge. One of the worst words in the world is
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Friend of the site Nadia Amoroso has asked me to share details with readers of a great opportunity to have your visualisation projects exhibited in a potential new book about cities as information-scapes.
Contribute your City-related designs or information-scapes to new book Read More »
In recent times we have seen a number of emerging projects which demonstrate the creative potential of the visual analysis of images and image data. Projects such as Cinemetrics, Movie Barcodes and the 365 Days of Light in Norway demonstrate what can be achieved when the characteristics of images are stretched, spliced, aggregated and transformed. Now
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The Visualizing Marathon 2011 is a series of 24-hour data visualisation competitions being held in five cities around the world. The inaugural 2010 event was extremely successful and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be one of the jurors at the London Marathon on 12th and 13th November. I’m also very grateful for being invited join
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Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, published details of his 2011 ‘State of the Word’, an annual overview of the headlines, success stories, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. Part of this narrative was based on results from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey, which got over
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A few weeks ago I published details of the O’Reilly Strata Conference event which is taking place in New York, between September 19 and 23. The finalised line up of speakers, sessions and topics has now been confirmed for the main part of the conference, “Making Data Work”, and I thought I would share my
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Much of last week’s attention was taken up by the launch of visual.ly, but today sees another great development in the visualisation field with the Visualizing.org launch of the Visualizing Player 1.0 – the first-ever media player designed specifically for data visualisation. The main features of the Visualizing Player are that it is widely portable, enabling easy embedding
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Just a quick post to point you in the direction of a great piece Enrico Bertini at Fell in Love with Data is working on. He is asking readers to suggest questions to ask top visualisation designer Moritz Stefaner in a forthcoming interview. The focus of the interview is to find out about Moritz’s experiences
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Today we welcome the latest notable development in the visualisation field. Just over three months after launching a teaser preview video of their offering, inspiring 60,000 people to sign up for invites, 8,500 Twitter followers and attracting an impressive list of partners, visual.ly, a platform for showcasing the diversity and beauty of visualisation, will launch
Visual.ly public beta is live! Read More »