Back in May 2010 the World Bank announced that it was launching a portal to open up access to its vast datasets and creating a platform for developers to make this data more accessible and facilitate greater insights.
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Fascinated to read in the mainstream press about Tableau’s decision to remove a series of visualisations published by WikiLeaks using Tableau Public, following pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman. Elissa Fink of Tableau has published an explanation of the background behind this decision. The key excerpts from this explanation are: Our terms of service require that
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A couple of items of news have popped up this week which give further evidence of the growing mainstream appreciation and appeal of visualisation. The fact both involve the BBC is very encouraging and continues their recent coverage of this subject following their Newsnight programme featuring David McCandless back in August. The Joy of Stats
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In the past hour, WikiLeaks (Twitter feed) has released the largest classified military leak in history. The release contains 391,832 reports documenting the Iraq conflict from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for May 2004 and March 2009).
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A new political blog/sub-domain of the New York Times website officially launched this week and you should keep your eyes on its progress – the FiveThirtyEight blog. This blog will bring together the visualisation prowess of the NYT with the political knowledge and statistical modelling capabilities of Nate Silver and his team of collaborators. During
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The last 72 hours or has been fairly crazy in the land of Visualising Data, with some notable visualisation stories and discussions popping up in various news and media channels. Firstly, on Sunday, the Wikileaks organisation picked up on my Tableau visualisations post and tweeted a URL to my site which led to visitor and
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As reported by ResellerNews, Microsoft has today released PivotViewer – an interactive visualisation tool designed to help browse, organise and analyse massive image collections and data sets by displaying dynamic visual summaries through your browser. I’ve not had chance to play with it yet but from first impressions based on watching the official launch videos
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Not sure how and why I’ve missed this publication for so long but today I’ve come across Information Age magazine having unearthed links to a couple of very interesting articles which I recommend you read. Firstly, one published today entitled “The Analytical Eye” talks about the as-yet untapped potential of data visualisation across business. It contains discussions
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The trickle of government bodies and large-scale organisations freeing up their data for transparency, scrutiny and creative exploration is quickly turning into something of a flow.
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It is disappointing to hear about the escalation of the stand-off between Adobe and Apple with regards to Flash, the multimedia platform that enables designers to develop rich, interactive web content. The latest episode being the news that Adobe are no longer pursuing the development of a tool that will allow Flash developers to port software
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