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.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
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.
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.
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.
It is great to see that an article Helen Kennedy and I wrote about the Seeing Data project has been published in this month’s Significance magazine, the ‘official magazine and website of both the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA)’.
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.
This is the third in a series of three blogposts about the Seeing Data project. In this final part I will be reflecting on our findings and considering some implications for visualisation designers.
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.
It was a great pleasure to be invited by Stephanie and Jon to join them as a guest for the first Rad Presenters episode recording of 2016, otherwise known as Episode #29.
After a few people kindly mentioned and shared details about my new book being available for pre-ordering I thought it would be a good time to post a brief update on its progress.
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.
It is always a sincere honour to be invited to contribute to be asked to join Enrico, Moritz and Mr Kosara for the annual Data Stories podcast review of the year looking back over the major trends and developments during 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 November 2015.
This is the second in a series of three blogposts about the Seeing Data project. In this second post, I reflect on one of the research methods that we used, called ‘Talking Mats’, which we think offers some really exciting possibilities for measuring the effectiveness of data visualisations.
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.
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 October 2015.
In my recent ‘Ask Andy Anything’ webinar Andy Cotgreave and I were faced with a particularly challenging pair of questions, one about sharing ‘success stories’ and the other inviting us to offer an elevator pitch for the value of data visualisation. I think this project by the excellent Alvin Chang of Vox is a perfect exhibit of the role of data visualisation.
It is around this time of the year when I take a quick peek over the figurative fence at my plans for 2016 and this means I need to plot out my schedule of public training events.
A couple of weeks ago I shared news that this site had made it onto the shortlist in the ‘Best Dataviz Website’ category for the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. I am enormously surprised and equally delighted to have discovered that visualisingdata.com has been announced as the winner!
On Monday I had the pleasure of joining Andy Cotgreave for a special webinar, hosted by Tableau, titled ‘Ask Andy Anything’. As I explained recently, this was a chance for people to send in any burning questions they had about data visualisations and we’d offer our views.
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.
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 September 2015.
Next Monday 30th November I will be joining Tableau’s Andy Cotgreave for a special webinar titled ‘Ask Andy Anything’. The premise is that both Andy and I are called Andy and you are invited to ask us anything about data visualisation.
I’m thrilled to learn that visualisingdata.com has been nominated in the final shortlist in the best ‘Dataviz website’ category of the KANTAR Information is Beautiful Awards for 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.
Yesterday I posted on Twitter a set of colour swatch pairings that offer colour-blind safe alternatives to the default greens and reds often used. They are from the chapter in my upcoming book where I talk about the impact of colourblindness and the recommended alternatives to consider using. The colours shown were generated from the wonderful ColorBrewer website.
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 August 2015.
This is the first in a series of three blogposts about the Seeing Data project. The first post is guest written by Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield and director of Seeing Data.
This post is to share news of a free event being held in Sheffield on the afternoon (2pm to 5pm) of Tuesday 10th November 2015: “What can data visualisation do? A conversation with experts”. Tickets are limited so act now
In case you’ve missed the coverage this week, there has been a lot of discussion about an enormously misleading graphic relating to the activities of an organisation called Planned Parenthood. The graphic was presented in US Congress by a Republican Congressman and was created by ‘American United for Life’.