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.

Articles

Six questions with… Alan Smith

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

BestWorstViz contest result

A couple of weeks ago I launched a second contest inviting people to send me examples of their best worst visualisation work. It had to be their work, though, not just submissions of bad visualisations they’ve seen elsewhere.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… February 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 February 2016.

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Articles

Six questions with… Jen Christiansen

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

Win a copy of my book with your best worst viz

Last month I launched a contest based around the theme of ‘#graphiti’, inviting people to send in visualisation modified with their doodle-based daubings. Having really enjoyed running that contest I checked with my publishers to see if we could run two more before publication date and they were up for it!

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Collections

All the ‘Six questions with…’

This is a collection of the entire series of short articles titled ‘six questions with…’. The purpose of this growing set of interviews is to provide a conveniently sized platform to offer perspectives about data visualisation-related topics from professionals within, around or outside of the field.

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Articles

Six questions with… Lena Groeger

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

Graphiti contest result

A couple of weeks ago I launched a small contest inviting folks to send me examples of graphiti – the clever ways can you think of combining the world of doodling and visualisation. The winner would receive a free copy of my upcoming book as soon as it is published.

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Articles

Six questions with… Jane Pong

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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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… January 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 January 2016.

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Announcements

Coming up on visualisingdata.com

As this site enters its 7th year I’ve got a lot of new plans that are gradually developing in the background with the singular aim of enlightening and inspiring my treasured readers.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… December 2015

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 December 2015.

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Announcements

Announcing three funded PhD Studentships

Relating To Data: understanding data through visualisation is a network of three funded PhD studentships which focuses on how people relate to data through their visualisation, the narratives and meanings people attach to visualisations and the potential understanding produced by them.

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