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.
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.
Earlier this week TheUpshot published a new interactive project visualising the ‘Yield Curve’. Created by Gregor Aisch and Amanda Cox the work provides a “3-D view of a chart that predicts the economic future”.
Last week I had the pleasure, as always of having a brief discussion with Jon Schwabish about life in the data visualisation scene. Helpfully the chat was recorded by NSA, Jon retrieved the audio and published it on his site.
It has taken a while to pull together but I’ve finally arrived at my final schedule of public data visualisation training events for the rest of 2015. For more information on the formats, types and coverage of each different event, visit the training page.
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 2015.
Next Thursday 12th March I will be doing a 60 minute webinar hosted by Tableau. The title of the talk is “Fresh Thinking on Communicating with Data” and is based around the theme of some of my recent talks.
This is an announcement for anyone interested in sponsoring this website. I have decided to open up three new banner spaces on the Home page for interested parties to advertise their product, services or general offerings.
During the week I posted an article about some of the issues and options around using colour to represent gender (that is, the binary of Male or Female). I included a one-question poll to gather some insights about the attitudes out there towards the use of colour with gender.
A quick post to share something that I’ve been really in to this past week or so: dendrochronology. Also known as tree-ring dating, it is the “scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree rings”.
You work you’re way through the data, come up with an idea for the most interesting angle of analysis, chart your data, and delight yourself with the compelling emerging display: look how clearly it shows the difference between men vs. women!
The Bank of England has announced details of its first data visualisation competition, in conjunction with the One Bank Research Agenda conference and the release of new publicly available Bank data sets. The winning entry will receive £5000.
I’m musing about this visualisation work that has received a lot of love and attention on blogs and social media over the past few days. Created by the excellent people in the Wall Street Journal graphics team, it portrays data about the impact of vaccines in battling infectious diseases in the 20th Century.
One of the frequent questions I get asked, particularly by people from a scientific or financial domain, is how to effectively visualise uncertainty of data and of statistics. My response is usually to make suggestions around annotated markings and/or colour gradients to indicate increasing or declining certainties.
Today I am celebrating the 5th birthday of visualisingdata.com and I wanted to thank every single one of the half a million visitors who have been to my site. Whether you have been along just the once or have been back time and time again, you have all helped to make this such an incredibly rewarding activity.
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 2014.
There’s a smart new project from the team at Clever Franke who have created a digital package of visual content around the topics of ‘Mobility, Economy and Livability’ for CMAP, the regional planning agency for metropolitan Chicago.
It goes without saying how much of a privilege it is to be invited to contribute to a Data Stories podcast and last week I joined hosts Enrico and Moritz alongside Robert Kosara to review the major trends and developments during 2014 and preview the main hopes and expectations for 2015.
Anybody facing up to colour choices in any creative activity knows how critical such decisions can be between the success and failure of a design. This is amplified in data visualisation. In contrast to graphic design work, for example, there is greater need to eliminate or at least reduce arbitrary choices.
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions Annual Conference for 2015 event in Grapevine, Texas.
With the new year well under way it is a good time to open up a renewed opportunity for people interested in my training offerings to influence where I take my next set of public events.
In an attempt to increase my blog post frequency, this year I’m going to publish more smaller posts that try to impart morsels of advice or thought-provocations about certain visualisation design matters. I’m going to start off 2015 focusing on a long-held gripe I have with map-based visualisations that colour the sea.
To mark the milestone of each mid-year and end-of-year I take a reflective glance over the previous 6 month period in the data visualisation field and compile a collection of some of the most significant developments.
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 2014.
Last week there was an article on Wired profiling an upcoming tool from Tableau called Elastic, which drew my ire. The tool looks fine, haven’t seen a great deal about it but I’m sure it will find a user base.
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 2014.
I was immensely grateful to be invited to speak at yesterday’s excellent Visualized.io conference event in London. As I previewed last week, the title of my talk was ‘The Design of Time’.
Back in September I profiled the Visualized.io conference taking place in London this year. Time has raced by and the event is coming up this Saturday. I have the great fortune of being one of the invited speakers.