Articles
Talk slides: My Malofiej20 talk
Below you will find an embedded slideshare version of the slides used in my Malofiej talk. I’m often reluctant to share slides from presentations because
Andy Kirk
March 26, 2012
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.
Articles
Personal reflections on Malofiej 20
As the occasionally elusive Pamplonan sun sets on Malofiej 20, I wanted to share my experiences of these past seven days which have formed the
Andy Kirk
March 25, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
March 15, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
February 29, 2012
Field News
Datawrapper: Open Source data visualisation creator
Datawrapper is a brand new tool unveiled by ABZV, a German training institution for newspaper journalists, but primarily the result of the vision, talent and commitment of Mirko Lorenz and Nicolas Kayser-Bril.
Andy Kirk
February 24, 2012
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… January 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 January 2012.
Andy Kirk
February 17, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
February 17, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
February 13, 2012
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”.
Andy Kirk
February 11, 2012
Field News
Opportunity to collaborate on the Data Journalism Handbook
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.
Andy Kirk
January 30, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
January 29, 2012
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.
Andy Kirk
January 13, 2012
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… December 2011 (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 December 2011.
Andy Kirk
January 11, 2012
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… December 2011 (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 December 2011.
Andy Kirk
January 10, 2012
10 Significant Developments
10 significant visualisation developments: July to 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.
Andy Kirk
December 19, 2011
Announcements
Honoured to be a judge and speaker at Malofiej 20
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
Andy Kirk
December 19, 2011
Articles
The worst visualisation I’ve seen this year? Google Zeitgeist 2011
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.
Andy Kirk
December 16, 2011
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… November 2011 (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 November 2011.
Andy Kirk
December 5, 2011
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… November 2011 (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 November 2011
Andy Kirk
December 5, 2011
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.
Andy Kirk
November 8, 2011
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.
Andy Kirk
October 27, 2011
Design
Experimental isarithmic maps visualise electoral data
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.
Andy Kirk
October 24, 2011
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.
Andy Kirk
October 19, 2011
Collections
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 2)
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Andy Kirk
October 13, 2011
Collections
Essential Resources: The most influential visualisation books (part 1)
The contents of this post are now published on the References page
Andy Kirk
October 13, 2011
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.
Andy Kirk
October 7, 2011
Field News
Contribute your City-related designs or information-scapes to new book
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.
Andy Kirk
September 25, 2011
Design
Sense of Patterns: New visualisation project from Mahir Yavuz
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.
Andy Kirk
September 11, 2011
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
Andy Kirk
September 11, 2011
Design
DataAppeal maps US east coast earthquake
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.
Andy Kirk
August 24, 2011