BLOG POSTS

Visualisingdata.com was originally launched in 2010 originally to serve as a blog to help continue the momentum of my learning from studying the subject via a Masters degree. I continue to publish articles and share announcements that track developments in my professional experiences as well as developments in the data visualisation field at large.

This is a collection of all my published posts, starting with the newest and dating back to 2010, tracking. These posts include articles, design commentaries, podcast updates, professional updates, and general news from across the data visualisation field.

Announcements

121 books! Updated references

Yesterday, I was alerted to how out of date my collection of visualisation (and related) books was over on my references page so I have just been through my memory banks to add as many titles as I can recall have been released over the past couple of years since I last tended to this list of suggested readings.

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10 Significant Developments

10 significant visualisation developments: January to June 2016

To mark each mid-year and end of year milestone I try to take a reflective glance over the previous 6 months period in the data visualisation field and compile a collection of some of the most significant developments. These are the main projects, events, new sites, trends, personalities and general observations that have struck me as being important to help further the development of this field.

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Announcements

A note about training price changes

Pricing is a dark art. Even after five years of being a freelancer I am constantly refining, revising and researching the best ways to approach pricing my different services in a way that hits the sweet-spot, balancing value for money for the spender and viable levels of revenue for my business.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… May 2016

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from May 2016

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Articles

Talk slides from second Tableau 2016 webinar

Earlier today I had the pleasure of being invited back by Tableau to deliver a second webinar of this year. The talk was titled ‘Bringing Method to the Madness’ during which I discussed the aims of my new book and profiled the design process behind my recent visualisation project called Filmographics.

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Announcements

Launching my book’s digital companion site

Today I am delighted to share details of a new special section of my website. The purpose of this site is to provide a wide range of companion resources to supplement the learning on offer in my newly published book.

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Design

New project: Filmographics

I am really happy to be able to launch a new visualisation project called ‘Filmographics’. It is a project that I have had in gestation for quite a while but is finally possible to release now that my book has been printed/published and the digital companion site is also openly accessible to all (as of today).

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… April 2016

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from April 2016.

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Articles

Six questions with… Santiago Ortiz

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Articles

Six questions with… Valentina D’efilippo

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Articles

Six questions with… Stefanie Posavec

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Articles

Six questions with… Simon Scarr

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Articles

Six questions with… Sarah Slobin

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Field News

A rapid survey about data visualisation tool skills

This was a short survey used to assess the appetite and needs for training in specific tools/applications/libraries for producing data visualisation work. The purpose was to quantify the challenges of training specific tools alongside the broader teaching of data visualisation.

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Articles

Six questions with… Scott Murray

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Articles

Six questions with… Kim Rees

In order to sprinkle some star dust into the contents of my book I’ve been doing a few interviews with various professionals from data visualisation and related fields. These people span the spectrum of industries, backgrounds, roles and perspectives.

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Announcements

BookShopped contest result

This week, I have been running a poll for readers to help decide the outcome of my third and final creative competition to win a copy of my book, namely the #BookShopped contest. The voting closed at 3PM UK time and I am delighted to announce…

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Announcements

BookShopped contest voting

Two weeks ago I launched the third and final creative contest to win a copy of my book. The theme of this challenge was #BookShopped, inviting people to creatively incorporate an image of my book cover into a famous movie scene.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… March 2016

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from March 2016.

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