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.
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. If you follow me on Twitter and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.
Last week I celebrated this website’s second birthday and posted details of an amazing, sensational, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a lucky reader to win a prize to attend one of my ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation’ training course free of charge.
Esquire magazine (or more accurately the web version) has published the results of an interesting project titled ‘The United States of 2012’ where they commissioned five different mapping concepts from a range of artists and designers to “reflect the state of things this year”.
I’ve been contacted by Liliana Bounegru, a Project Manager from the European Journalism Centre, to help try and attract a potential contributor or contributors to the task of writing the first collaborative Data Journalism Handbook.
A couple of weeks ago Tableau announced the launch of version 7.0 of their popular Business Intelligence and Visual Analytics software. To find out more about this development I invited Craig Bloodworth, a Tableau evangelist and consultant for The Information Lab to highlight some of the new data visualisation features and enhancements.
Last month I shared details of the locations where I was planning to deliver my “Introduction to Data Visualisation” training courses during the first half of 2012. I’m delighted to announce more details about the schedule, specifically the dates of the events.
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 December 2011.
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 December 2011.
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.
Just a quick announcement to share that I am absolutely thrilled and honoured to have been invited to attend Malofiej 20, the 20th edition of
The Google Zeitgeist report for 2011 has been published reviewing the most popular news, events, people and stories according to search queries typed into Google during the year. This year’s report contains a baffling 3D visualisation to present the top 10 lists.
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 November 2011.
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 November 2011
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from a October 2011.
After what appears to be have been a rapid and widespread take-up of its Google+ social media service, Google has now launched details of its ‘Ripples’ feature. Significantly, news of the release was made by Fernanda Viegas, one of the most prominent names in the field and co-leader, with Martin Wattenberg, of Google’s “Big Picture” data visualization group.
David B. Sparks, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, has today published a fascinating set of experiments using ‘Isarithmic’ maps to visualise US party identification.
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I am delighted to have been approached by Editor Mac Slocum to contribute a series of ‘Visualization deconstructed’ articles for the superb O’Reilly Radar website. The first of these articles was published today, focusing on why animated geospatial data works so well.
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from a very busy September 2011.
Friend of the site Nadia Amoroso has asked me to share details with readers of a great opportunity to have your visualisation projects exhibited in a potential new book about cities as information-scapes.
Sense of Patterns is an impressive portfolio of work from Mahir M. Yavuz, a Creative Director and PhD candidate who appears to share his time between New York, Linz in Austria and Istanbul.
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from August 2011
During my recent stint as guest-editor on Infosthetics, I profiled a new tool called DataAppeal which allows you to upload and map geospatial data in three-dimension on top of a Google Earth map.
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from July 2011.
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from June 2011.
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
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.
I was invited a couple of weeks ago to do some brief filming for the BBC. They were compiling a piece for the BBC Technology website about data visualisation and wanted my contribution to share some opinions about the key principles and better practices of this field.