Collections
Essential Resources: Specialist, illustration and other useful resources
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 5, 2013
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.
Collections
Essential Resources: Web-based visualisation tools
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 5, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: Mapping applications, frameworks and libraries
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 4, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: Multivariate, network and qualitative visualisations
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 4, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: Programming languages, toolkits and libraries
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 3, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: Charting, analysis and exploratory tools
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
September 3, 2013
Announcements
Updated! Essential collection of visualisation resources
After what seems like an age since I started working on it, I have finally found the time to update my essential collection of visualisation resources, which was last published in 2011.
Andy Kirk
September 2, 2013
‘Kindred Britain’ maps 30,000 people in British history
A fantastic new visualisation work has been released today titled ‘Kindred Britain’. Created by Nicholas Jenkins and Elijah Meeks of Stanford University in partnership with Scott Murray (amongst others) the project offers a deep, exploratory interface into a network of nearly 30,000 key figures in British culture.
Andy Kirk
August 26, 2013
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… July 2013
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 2013.
Andy Kirk
August 22, 2013
Announcements
Interested in working on clinical outcome visualisation project?
Dr Tony Rousmaniere PsyD is Associate Director of Counseling at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Student Center for Health and Counseling. Tony has been in touch to share details of some help is seeking from people with data visualisation skills to help work on a fascinating dataset around the clinical outcomes of psychotherapy cases.
Andy Kirk
August 22, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: Tools and references for working with colour
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
August 6, 2013
Articles
Video: ‘What color is a Glacier?’
Just a short post to log and share a really nice video. Titled ‘What Color is a Glacier?’, it is a submission for a student context run by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a ‘nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 61,000 members from over 146 countries’.
Andy Kirk
August 5, 2013
10 Significant Developments
10 significant visualisation developments: January to June 2013
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.
Andy Kirk
July 31, 2013
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… June 2013
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 2013.
Andy Kirk
July 26, 2013
External
My selections for FastCo Labs ‘Top 10 iconic data graphics’
I was recently asked to contribute a selection of what I believe to be the five most iconic visualisations of the past 10 years for an article on FastCo Labs. The article has now been published and there are some really interesting other selections on there from Robert Kosara and Matt Stiles to make up a top 10 list.
Andy Kirk
July 26, 2013
Articles
Should you ‘trust’ data visualisations?
There has been much discussion this past couple of days about John Burn-Murdoch’s article in the Guardian ‘Why you should never trust a visualisation’ which was itself a response to an earlier article by Pete Warden that proposed ‘Why you should never trust a data scientist’.
Andy Kirk
July 26, 2013
Design
‘Movie Galaxies’ social graphs in movies
Jermain and Michael are co-founders of a data visualisation project called ‘Moviegalaxies’, “a place to discover the social graph in movies”. I recall I saw an early version of this project last year but it seems that the depth of movies now available has grown significantly.
Andy Kirk
July 26, 2013
Collections
Essential Resources: A big collection of sites and services for accessing data
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
Andy Kirk
July 23, 2013
Design
Windswept: Mesmerising wind observation installation
Thanks to Rob Rolleston for sharing this video with me. It came up through some analysis of the Hint FM Wind Map and, as you can see for yourself, it provides a mesmerising ambient display of local wind patterns, making the invisible visible.
Andy Kirk
July 16, 2013
Design
Unspeak: Interactive documentary looks at manipulative power of language
Many thanks to Luis van den Ende from Submarine Channel for sending me details of this fascinating interactive documentary titled ‘Unspeak’ that combines film, data visualisation, technology and design to investigate the issue of language that deliberately manipulates public opinion.
Andy Kirk
July 12, 2013
Design
‘Watch Dogs: WeAreData’ smart city data mapping
To accompany the launch of the Watch Dogs video game, ‘WatchDogs: WeAreData’ is a demonstration of some of the ‘smart cities’ concept that forms a major part of the game’s narrative.
Andy Kirk
July 11, 2013
Field News
Sharing Texas ‘Death Row’ execution data
Earlier today I came across a website that contained some incredibly intriguing data. The website is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the particular page of interest is a collection of records for the 500 ‘Death Row’ offenders who have been executed
Andy Kirk
July 3, 2013
Articles
Response to: ‘What’s the best way to teach visualization?’
Over on Fell In Love With Data, Enrico Bertini has started a really interesting conversation about the best way to teach data visualisation. This is in contrast to the majority of conversations that typically take place around how best to learn data visualisation.
Andy Kirk
July 3, 2013
Announcements
Coming soon on Visualising Data…
Now that we have taken a confident stride into the second half of 2013, I thought it would be a suitable juncture to take stock of what I’m working on and share what is coming up in the remainder of the year.
Andy Kirk
July 2, 2013
Articles
Video: The anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
The shared principles and motives between visualisation and other forms or channels of communication always intrigue me. The craft of the cartoonist especially fascinates me.
Andy Kirk
June 28, 2013
Articles
Invisible: Visible
I’ve had this draft post sat gathering WordPress dust for over 7 months so I thought it was time for it to be put out of its misery.
Andy Kirk
June 27, 2013
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… May 2013
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 2013
Andy Kirk
June 27, 2013
Design
Exploiting nature’s own colour palette
Came across some really nice work by Melbourne-based Greg More of OOM Creative. Titled ‘Urban Forest Visual’, the CartoDB powered project allows users to explore a dataset of the City of Melbourne’s 70,000+ trees and appreciate some of the issues being faced to maintain their life span.
Andy Kirk
June 25, 2013
Articles
A short essay about interpretation, doodling, perceptions and people
Before I begin, let me concede that there is a good chance that, by the time I get to the end, this post might not go anywhere, it might not hang together well and might be rather incohesive. It is my first day back after holidays and I’m not on top of my game yet.
Andy Kirk
June 24, 2013
Design
‘OpenData Globe’ reveals dynamics of European cities
With the ever increasing availability of, and access to open data about the world around us, there is a constant stream of fascinating developments to try bring new insight into the dynamics of how our cities function.
Andy Kirk
June 24, 2013