Articles
Visualisation Insights: #3 Blog Editor
This is the third part in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of these posts is to provide readers with unique insights into the field
Andy Kirk
October 11, 2010
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.
Design
Experiencing information in New York City
“You must come round and look at my holiday photos” is a phrase that sends shivers down most spines, mine included. Nevertheless, I wanted to
Andy Kirk
October 6, 2010
Design
The Guardian’s US midterm elections map
On 2 November, the US holds midterm elections to Congress. To allow UK readers (in particular) to learn more about what these midterms involve and
Andy Kirk
October 5, 2010
Announcements
We’ll be back after a short break…
I’m very excited to be making my first ever visit to New York in a few days time. Besides trying to fit in 2 weeks
Andy Kirk
September 16, 2010
Articles
Sticky slides – which is the best chart?
One of the many RSS subscriptions that keep my Google Reader working overtime is Jan Schultink’s Sticky Slides blog, which provides a lot of useful
Andy Kirk
September 10, 2010
Design
US Patent & Trademark Office visualisation centre
Over the several years I have been immersed in data visualisation there have been many occasions when I’ve come across a graphic that is largely
Andy Kirk
September 8, 2010
Design
Last.fm listening clocks
Spotted on Wired, the developers responsible for Last.fm’s ‘VIP playground’ have announced the launch of a visualisation service that plots subscribers’ listening habits over a
Andy Kirk
September 7, 2010
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… August 2010
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from August 2010
Andy Kirk
September 2, 2010
Field News
FiveThirtyEight blog begins on NYT
A new political blog/sub-domain of the New York Times website officially launched this week and you should keep your eyes on its progress – the
Andy Kirk
August 27, 2010
Articles
Visualisation Reflections: #2 Independent content curator
This is a follow-up post to my second article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published early this week. The purpose of this companion
Andy Kirk
August 26, 2010
Articles
Visualisation Insights: #2 Independent content curator
This is the second part of my recently launched Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into
Andy Kirk
August 24, 2010
Design
Graphical lowlights from the OFCOM report
The OFCOM Communications Market Report 2010 has been published today. For those who don’t know about OFCOM it is the independent regulator and competition authority for
Andy Kirk
August 19, 2010
Articles
Making sense of streamgraphs
Over the past couple of months I’ve noticed a number of new examples of streamgraphs working their way around the web. It has prompted me to finally get around to visiting this subject because these graphs always seem to stir great debate, one which seems to perfectly encapsulate the ongoing challenges faced within the visualisation field
Andy Kirk
August 18, 2010
Field News
Visualisation in the news
The last 72 hours or has been fairly crazy in the land of Visualising Data, with some notable visualisation stories and discussions popping up in
Andy Kirk
August 10, 2010
Announcements
Visualising Data is 6 months old!
I’m allowing a bit of self indulgence today as I celebrate 6 months of Visualising Data. These first 6 months have seen a steady but
Andy Kirk
August 6, 2010
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… July 2010
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from July 2010.
Andy Kirk
August 5, 2010
Articles
Visualisation Reflections: #1 The visualisation designer
This is a follow-up post to my first article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published last week. The purpose of this companion series
Andy Kirk
August 3, 2010
Articles
Visualisation Insights: #1 The visualisation designer
This post is the first in a series I am commencing called Visualisation Insights. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique
Andy Kirk
July 27, 2010
Design
Visualising the Wikileak’s war logs using Tableau Public
Further to yesterday’s post about the Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs, the Guardian datablog has published a post today describing how their data journalism operation worked.
Andy Kirk
July 27, 2010
Articles
Wikileaks War Logs: A triumph in ‘data journalism’?
The New York Times, the Guardian (UK) and Der Spiegel (Ger) have published details of a huge set of war logs from the whistleblowing website
Andy Kirk
July 26, 2010
Design
Radial plot of FTSE 100
A series of charts by Jeremy Christopher depicting the history, worth and composition of the FTSE 100 share index have been doing the rounds over
Andy Kirk
July 22, 2010
Design
Twitter visualisation of happiness
The San Francisco Chronicle presents a visualisation developed by Alan Mislove, a researcher at Northwestern University. His study looks at 300 million tweets measuring mood
Andy Kirk
July 21, 2010
Articles
Follow up to ‘Worst graph design ever?’
In my recent post ‘Worst graph design ever?’ I provided a very brief review of the ‘The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts’. As the title
Andy Kirk
July 20, 2010
Best Ofs
Best of the visualisation web… June 2010
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across. Here’s the latest collection from June 2010
Andy Kirk
July 19, 2010
Articles
Still awaiting Tufte’s influence?
Access to Data I have spoken recently about the status of the world of visualisation and how the juxtaposition of a number of factors is
Andy Kirk
July 16, 2010
Articles
Worst graph design ever?
Yesterday, I came across a graphic which I believe to be possibly the worst graph I have ever seen. I’ve seen some stinkers but this has cleared out the room. Now hold your nose…
Andy Kirk
July 14, 2010
Articles
Visualising the World Cup: Reflections
On the excellent DataVisualization.ch site, Benjamin has posted an interview that shares some of his thought about the various World Cup visualisations, infographics and interactives
Andy Kirk
July 8, 2010
Articles
Creating greater awareness of design
A couple of months ago I discussed the issue of how the excitement and hype around the visualisation/information design field, whilst justified, was a bit
Andy Kirk
July 7, 2010
Articles
Health information overload
The waiting room A few weeks ago I was sat in a doctor’s waiting room area trying to kill time before an appointment. Normally, my
Andy Kirk
July 6, 2010
Field News
Microsoft’s PivotViewer data visualisation tool
As reported by ResellerNews, Microsoft has today released PivotViewer – an interactive visualisation tool designed to help browse, organise and analyse massive image collections and
Andy Kirk
July 1, 2010