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.
Thanks to Romain Vuillemot for sharing a really interesting visualization toolkit he has developed with Samuel Huron called Visual Sedimentation (VisualSedimentation.js), a JavaScript library for visualising streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation.
Are you interested in data visualisation? A very open question but given you are reading this post the chances are you are. Whether you only occasionally read blogs, are a full-time professional, or fall somewhere in between, it doesn’t matter – you are a key part of this field’s ecosystem.
As most have you have probably read by now, Google is shutting down its popular feed reader Google Reader. For those of us who consume updates from our favourite sites this was a really simple and unfussy tool and it is an annoyance to see it going.
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 February 2013.
Beth Schultz has done a sound job of encapsulating some of the key take-aways from last week’s ‘All Analytics Academy’ session I took part in, specifically focusing on some of the key objectives for visualisation design I spoke about.
In the last hour or so, Benjamin Wiederkehr and his talented crew at Interactive Things have shared work they were involved in for Swiss German-language newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The project is titled ‘No time for anger’ and looks at four stories two years on from the Fukushima disasters.
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
“The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy” is a new book by Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli presenting his wonderfully perfectionist’s eye for obsessively creating order where there is none.
There is never a short supply of dumb charts, particularly thanks to the totemic uselessness of outlets like Fox news. However, sometimes you see an example that leaves you quite frozen with fascination: How did it come to be? What were they thinking? How many people let this pass through the approval for usage?
A theme of steadily increasing interest to me and many others in the field right now is the ideal of physical data visualisation. Not just visual sculptures as data art but actual tactile representations of data that maintain and offer function.
The video below has been hitting the social media circles today – though curiously not much within/across the data visualisation field – and I thought I would share it as a really great example of using video and narration to explain an interesting data-driven subject.
Over the past 18 months it has been a great thrill to have the opportunity to travel the world and deliver training courses in data visualisation.
Came across this online resource by chance but the BBC College of Journalism site looks an excellent repository for some handy tips about all sorts of communication-related disciplines that can be applied to the practice of effective data visualisation
I’m not always positively struck by social-media related visualisations, however, I do like this Twitter languages map of New York project from James Cheshire, Ed Manley (of CASA) and John Barratt (of Trendsmap) – as well as several others.
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 2013.
Sometimes I find myself lazily defaulting to posting things on twitter but forget that, on occasion, they are of such grand importance that, really, they should be shared with the wider world. Here is one such example.
Thanks to FastCo Exist I’ve come across this interesting use of WebGL to create a 3D interactive visualisation of the world’s carbon emissions.
Thinking of re-profiling your work in to a more lucrative direction? Look no further than the latest boom industry – the ‘sad graph’ designer. Here’s a funny clip taken from Charlie Brooker’s BBC Weekly Wipe show.
This week Periscopic released a striking new project titled ‘US Gun Murders in 2010’. It has already been showcased on all the major data visualisation and design sites, and rightly so. I love it.
Every now and then I’m happy to justify to myself a rather indulgent post and today has a particularly warranted feel to it. Today marks the third anniversary since I launched visualisingdata.com and published my first post.
Earlier this week I posted about the project exploring the impact of Superstorm Sandy. One of the enduring features of this work was the integration of imagery with the core data visualisation interface, expanding the scope of the users’ connection with the event.
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 2012.
I saw some nice techniques being used in this project developed by Derek Watkins and Laura Kurgan from the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University.
You will no doubt know by now that I have a book out – I’ve not been shy in letting people know! What I have neglected to do so far, though, is to give people a flavour of the style and coverage of the book.
This is just a general observation that I shared on Twitter but wanted to capture it and share it on here. It has been noticable over the past few days how much increased visibility/output there has been from the BBC with regards to its Interactive and Graphics work.
It has been a rare pleasure to have the opportunity to spend the week along the US west coast, meeting some incredible people, catching up with old friends and new and being kindly invited to give a few talks along the way.
It was my great pleasure to be invited back on to the outstanding data stories podcast last week, for my third appearance! I joined hosts Enrico and Moritz alongside Andrew Vande Moere and Bryan Connor to discuss our feelings on what was big in 2012 and our hopes and expectations for 2013.
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
I would be surprised if many people out there have not heard of Alberto Cairo, given the vast amount of different channels and contexts through which he is active in the data visualisation field.
A week or so ago I shared details of the imminent release of my first book, well I’m thrilled to say my book is now published and available to buy!