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.

Announcements

Malofiej, Big Data Con and other site news

Back in December I expressed my great delight at having been invited to judge, speak and attend the 20th Malofiej Infographics World Summit. Well, time has sped by and on Saturday I will be flying over to Pamplona to kick off this prestigious week long event – as Robert Kosara put it, the Pulitzer Prize of Information Graphics.

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Field News

Announcing the Data Journalism Awards

In the latest Datastories podcast, from the “Exotic European Voiced” due of Bertini and Stefaner, there was some interesting discussion about the rights and wrongs of visualisation contests and the debate touched on the concept of awards.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… January 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. If you follow me on Twitter and Google+ you will see many of these items shared as soon as I find them.

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Announcements

Winner announced! Free data visualisation training place

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.

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Design

Esquire’s ‘The United States of 2012’

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”.

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Field News

What Tableau 7.0 brings to the data visualisation table

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.

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Announcements

Announcing 2012 data visualisation training course dates

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.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… October 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.

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Design

Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation

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.

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External

O’Reilly Radar article: “Why animated geospatial data works”

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.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… September 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 very busy September 2011.

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Best Ofs

Best of the visualisation web… August 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 August 2011

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