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.
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.
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.
I was very pleased to be invited by Matt Francis and Emily Kund to join them to chat about data visualisation on the latest episode of their ‘Tableau Wanna Be Podcast’. Amongst other things we discussed some of the nevers and shouldn’ts of data visualisation.
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.
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.
Yesterday I tweeted about a confusing graphic from a BBC article dispelling myths about last season’s Premier League. Its a good article with some really interesting content but some of the accompanying graphics hindered rather than enlightened the points being made.
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 June 2015.
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.
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.
On the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) website, Professor Helen Kennedy, the leader of our Seeing Data research project, has posted an article about ‘how people engage with data visualisations and why it matters’.
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 2015.
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.
As visitors know, I’m in the key stages of book writing. I won’t bore you by repeating the background of that anymore.As you might anticipate, in a book about data visualisation, there is a chapter about data, describing the mechanics for gathering, familiarising with, preparing, analysing etc.
As I’m reaching a critical stage with my book writing – a draft script is due shortly – I will be dropping off the radar
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 2015.
I’ve been updating my collection of data visualisation resources after receiving suggestions for additions over the past few months. The collection now has 298 records covering the spectrum of applications.
When considering the trajectory and development of the data visualisation field I contemplate the dual role of the scientific and creative communities: I believe scientists tell us what we should do and creatives tell us what we could do.
As I am in the process of writing my book I find that the same challenges in the use of language crop up. The main one I have difficulty being consistent about is how to term the person who reads, uses, consumes etc. visualisation work. Especially, when I am constructing a sentence that really needs a singular catch-all label and not a multi-comma-separated list – that just makes it clumsy both to write and to read.
A very quick post just to share this graphic from the WSJ that was published a couple of days ago. The reason for profiling it is simply because I think this is a great example of an infographic that includes worthwhile visual embellishments: useful chartjunk if we want to go there.
With the dust settling after the UK elections, a brief reflection on the winners and losers from a data and visualisation perspective. I have selected two of each as follows…
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 2015.
Really like this piece of visual journalism by Alex Tribou and Keith Collins of the Bloomberg Visual Team who have looked at ‘How Fast America Changes Its Mind’ over some of the biggest social issues.
Stereotropes is an interactive experiment, developed by the Data Visualisation team at Bocoup, which examines the use of a range of common tropes in TV and movies and how they reflect, shape or counter against gender stereotypes in society.
Back in January I claimed that I would be hitting the new year with plans of more frequent smaller posts to offer ‘some practical tidbits most probably relating to quite narrow design considerations’. That lasted for about a week, so its certainly long overdue that I pick this back up.
Regular readers will be somewhat aware of my involvement in a research project called ‘Seeing Data’, a 15 month study funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Helen Kennedy from the University of Sheffield.
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 2015.
MapWheel is a new product from Waypoint Ventures, a Sydney based start-up founded by Russell Bolden and Jesse Little, which offers the means to create a customised ‘toposcope’ plaque showing the exact direction and distance to treasured locations around the world relative to your specified ‘home’.
It is always a privilege to be asked to give talks and this last week I’ve given two more at the National Audit Office as well as a webinar for Tableau. As many people like to have access to the slide content after each talk I don’t mind at all sharing them.
As we enter the final few weeks before the UK General Election on Thursday 7th May, I would be really keen to shine a finger-pointing light on any party who put their names to any manipulative and deceptive visuals.
A quick profile of Dear Data, a lovely ‘artisan visualisation’ concept from the brains and pens of Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. It has had plenty of coverage on other sites and on social media this week but I wanted to briefly mention it for anybody else out there yet to come across it.