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 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.
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.
The contents of this post are now published on the interactive Resources page
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
A nice new project brought to my attention by Alexey Papulovskiy titled ‘Contrailz’ provides an elegant visualisation of the world’s flight paths. Now, we’ve seen projects with a similar focus in the past (Bio.Diaspora and Arup, to name but a few) but here we have a fully interactive exploratory environment to zoom and pan around the global patterns.
After completing a logistics task comparable with the early Apollo missions, I have resolved my schedule for visiting Australia in November and can confirm the dates of my three training courses in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
I have written in the past about the way those of us active in the field operate within something of an artificial environment. It is unavoidable and not unique to data visualisation but when your day is spent networking and communicating ideas largely just with other captive members of the discipline you do so within a bit of a bubble.
Last month I invited those who might be interested to let me know of where in the world they would like me to arrange my ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation’ training courses. At the time I was specifically interested in exploring options for India and Australia but any location is of course feasible depending on the volume of interest expressed.
As we approach June there is just a month to go until Google Reader is shut down so this is another reminder that if you follow me via RSS you will need to make some changes. If you’ve not already done so, your first decision will be to choose a tool to replace the job of Google Reader.
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 April 2013.
Earlier this week I mused about an accidental fusion between music and visualisation. This comes on the back of other pieces about smells and visualisation and the possibility of taste and visualisation. Now we find a new collaborative concept in the shape of gardening and visualisation, or HortiViz if you like.
A few weeks ago I wrote a short article for the OECD’s Better Life Index blog and it was just published yesterday. It’s not a groundbreaking piece of work but frames a discussion about the success of the Better Life Index project that many of you will already be familiar with.
I was hard at work this morning preparing for a variety of things and it just so happened that I had Jonathan Corum’s ‘Kepler’s Tally of Planets’ work on my screen and BBC Radio 6Music playing in the background.
Last night I had the privilege of talking at the New York Data Visualisation meetup event, hosted by the good people at McKinsey. This was based on a similar talk I gave in London last week as part of the ‘IDA talks’ series. The talk was titled ‘Opposites Attract: The Art and Science of Data Visualisation’.
To mark the scoring of a record number of goals for his club, Adidas have celebrated Frank Lampard’s 203 strike with a real-life 3D visualisation of where each of these goals were scored from.
It feels like it has been a while since I mentioned my book ‘Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process’ but now seems as good a time as any because I have some free eBooks to dish out!
Published yesterday comes the newest episode of the PBS ‘Off Book’ series in the form of a nice video titled “The Art of Data Visualization”, a subject close to the topic of some of my recent talks.
This is a guest post by Johanna Morariu (@j_morariu) and Ann Emery (@annkemery) who work for Innovation Network, a nonprofit evaluation, research, and consulting firm in Washington, DC.
his is a guest post from Ben Harrow, Digital Editor at 72Point and at News by Design, a news site built around infographics – a platform that shows off infographics that tell a newsworthy story in a structured and visually dynamic way.
