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.
Here’s a nice 12 minute movie from Swissinfographics featuring some of the best names in infographic design discussing the challenge of achieving clear and functional designs, the essence of the graphic design style that originated from Switzerland in the 50s termed ‘Swiss Style’.
The BBC News website has today launched a new series titled ‘100 Women’, bringing together a range of interviews, profiles, articles and other digital content to look at the world we live in through the eyes of women.
The Fallen 9000 was an artistic ‘event’ to coincide and mark International Peace day on 21st September. The project took place on the D-Day landing beach of Arromanches in France with the objective of representing the estimated 9,000 civilians, German forces and Allies who lost their lives on 6th June 1944.
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 2013.
Launched yesterday comes a new interactive visualisation project and week-long accompanying series on global trade issues from ‘Ideas Lab’.
With the final few remaining places disappearing on my upcoming Autumn training events it feels like a good time to open up another opportunity for people interested in my training offerings to influence where I take my next set of events.
Thanks to Mel Taylor for sharing some nice work from NatCen, a leading independent social research agency, revealing the changes in British social attitudes over 30 years.
The contents of this post are published on the interactive Resources page.
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
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.
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.
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.
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.
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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