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.

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Best of the visualisation web… November 2012

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 2012

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Best of the visualisation web… October 2012

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 2012.

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External

Interviewed for the Journalism.co.za website

Following my recent visit to Johannesberg and Cape Town, I was interviewed by Gill Moodie for Journalism.co.za website, aimed at the Journalists of South Africa, to discuss ‘creating new kinds of stories with data visualisation’.

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Articles

Reflections from Visualized conference

Back in August I shared details of the first ever ‘Visualized’ conference. The event has been taking place in New York over the past couple of days and so I wanted to share some quick reflections from what has been a fantastic event.

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Best of the visualisation web… September 2012

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 2012.

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Design

Ideology of the US Congress

In the build up to next week’s US presidential elections, there are naturally many visualisation and infographic projects being released. A couple of contrasting projects have caught my eye about the ideological breakdown of the US Congress.

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Field News

Check out ‘Parsons Journal for Information Mapping’

How many of you have heard of the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM)? It’s a really good digital publication that comes out quarterly and covers data visualisation with articles on both the theoretical side as well as the practical, highlighting new developments, techniques and great projects from around the field.

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Articles

VisWeek updates by Jon Schwabish: Day 3

This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.

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Articles

VisWeek updates by Jon Schwabish: Day 2

This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.

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Articles

VisWeek updates by Jon Schwabish: Day 1

This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at [email protected] or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish. Many thanks to Job for his efforts to keep us poor folk who aren’t able to make it to this great flagship event.

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Best of the visualisation web… August 2012

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 collection from August 2012.

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Design

Live visualisation views of Hurricane Isaac

Given the attention on New Orleans and surrounding areas with respect to Hurricane Isaac, I’ve just taken a couple of quick screen recordings of Martin Wattenberg/Fernanda Viegas’ Hint FM ‘Wind Map’ and Stamen’s/TWC ‘Hurricane Tracker’ to show how things are developing down there.

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Design

Tasty Tweets: Data representation through taste

Tasty Tweets is a data visualisation experiment that expands the usual encoding options beyond simple visuals. Developed by students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, the project allows users to explore current twitter trends through taste.

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Design

Weekly ‘Visual Data’ section in Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper (broadsheet) and La Lettura is a cultural supplement published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper. The supplement is highly regarded and includes articles and works from the most famous Italian experts

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Best of the visualisation web… July 2012 (part 2)

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 part two of the latest collection from July 2012.

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Best of the visualisation web… July 2012 (part 1)

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 part one of the latest collection from July 2012

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Design

The wonderful NYT series of Olympics graphics

This post is not really an article more of a pointer to go elsewhere. Unless you’ve been absent from the data visualisation and infographics scene over the past 10 days, you can’t have failed to have come across one of the many amazing graphics that have been produced by the New York Times during the course of the Olympics.

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Design

‘Partly Cloudy’ weather app

Last month I profiled a project titled ‘Energy technologies visualisation for the IEA’. Well, the Raureif folks have been busy and have just this week launched a stunning new data visualisation design in the form of a weather app for the iPhone called ‘Partly Cloudy’.

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