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.
I’ve had this issue on my mind for a while now but haven’t really found a way of expressing a cohesive post about it. I still haven’t, as you’ll find by the time you reach the bottom. Let me state from the outset: today, I am the problem guy, not the solution guy.
Ages ago I wrote an article for Wiley’s ‘Statistics Views’ site and it looks like it was finally published yesterday. The piece is titled “Visualising Statistics: The importance of seeing not just describing data”
Since first publishing my resources collection a couple of years ago I’ve been fortunate to have had lots of startups and vendors contact me to share news about their latest features and tools.
As the final members of the graphics teams (1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) across the news media finally shut down their machines after a long night of mid-term election coverage, I am reminded of a great article by Matt Ericson from 2010 titled ‘When maps shouldn’t be maps’
I have been exploring the absorbing ‘The Library Project’, a collaboration between the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University, led by Laura Kurgan, and visualisation design/developers Annelie Berner, Jen Lowe and Derek Watkins.
Earlier this week I published my slides from a talk I gave last week in San Francisco. One of the key things I discussed was the importance of carefully considering your editorial focus and I equated some of the ideas to the world of photojournalism.
Over on my ‘References’ page, I have updated the collection of data visualisation and related books. The list is now up to 99 titles, which makes for a nice soundbitey title but it will continue to grow and in a more timely manner than before now.
Below you will find an embedded slideshare version of the slides used in last week’s talk at the Data Visualization Group in the Bay Area Meetup at the University of San Francisco.
This weekend Gregor Aisch and Kevin Quealy published a great graphic for The Upshot that charts the record-breaking NFL touchdown passing achievements of Peyton Manning.
Earlier this year I profiled the success of participative visualisations, visual projects that go beyond interactive interrogation to invite the user to put themselves at the heart of the subject’s data.
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 2014.
For cross-posting purposes: Over on the Seeing Data research project blog, I have posted an article about what ‘designing for an audience’ really means in data visualisation. It offers a few key prompts about key matters to consider in your design process.
Last year I was honoured to be invited by Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine journalist, to join a group comprising some of the very finest minds and talents in this field to help contribute some personal recommendations for the best Infographics coming out of America
Doing the rounds on social media today has been a graphic by Greg Shirah of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. It presents 414 images of the North Pole sea ice extent arranged in a grid of 36 years (1979 to 2014) in the horizontal and the 12 months in the vertical.
It has taken a while but I have finally managed to complete the task of updating the large collection of data visualisation tools and resources. In total there are now 273 identifiable tools, applications and services that play a role in the design of data visualisation.
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 July 2014.
After VISUALIZEDio Berlin, the second independently organized event VISUALIZEDio London is officially launched! VISUALIZEDio is a conference that explored the intersection of data, design and storytelling. Join us this year on Saturday, November 22 for our first one-day VISUALIZEDio conference in London.
That might seem like a rather a pompous section header – after all it is just a new site design – but for me it feels like a really significant milestone. The new version of visualisingdata.com was launched yesterday without too many bumps in the road, thankfully. I want to share a little bit more information about the thinking behind this new site’s design and functionality.
After several months of hard graft, fresh thinking, intricate development and preparation I am delighted to be launching this new and improved version of visualisingdata.com.
To mark the milestone of each mid-year and end of year 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.
An article discussing the need for greater sophistication in recognising what outcomes certain visualisations are attempting to accomplish and indeed what they are capable of accomplishing.
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 2014.
One of the (many) things that impresses me most about the quality of data visualisation and infographic output from the leading journalist organisations is the continued variety and innovation of their techniques.
My thanks to Francis Gagnon for inviting me to take part in a fun, off-beat interview on his Chez Voila site. His questions were super refreshing, I look forward to seeing others in this series.
Just a quick note to share an update on my upcoming ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation & Infographic Design’ public training workshops.
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 2014.
For cross-posting purposes: Over on the Seeing Data research project blog, I have posted a collection of 8 articles concerning visual and visualisation literacy.
I’ve had this short post sat in my draft folder for weeks now, awaiting the right context before publishing. I’m finally motivated to post it having seen a few discussions on Twitter last week whilst on holiday.
I want to share some information about a really interesting research project I’m fortunate to be working on with a small research team from the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds and The Migration Observatory. The study is titled ‘Seeing Data’ and is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Having commenced in January of this year the project runs through to March 2015.
As ever it was a privilege to be invited to take part in the latest episode 37 of the Data Stories podcast. I joined Enrico and Moritz alongside Scott Murray to discuss the challenges of learning and teaching data visualisation.