Site changes & Facebook page
I’m currently making a few cosmetic changes to the site, refining the header and some of the WordPress templates , developing a logo, installing a range
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’m currently making a few cosmetic changes to the site, refining the header and some of the WordPress templates , developing a logo, installing a range
Fine tune Design of Nothing for Utrecht event
A few weeks ago I posted some screenshots from the O2 ‘My Account’ app for the iPhone. I suggested that the design could be much
Providing some fantastic contextual information about the value of skills and services like data visualisation, the 27th February edition of The Ecomomist focuses on information
I wanted to share some general observations following the FlowingData challenge from last Friday which has provoked a large response. Readers were invited to comment on and offer makeover designs for the above 3D pyramid diagram
Good to see that the Guardian newspaper’s graphics team has one a handful of awards at the Malofiej18 graphic design competition. From the UK perspective
Wanted to share this from Smashing Magazine who have published a post compiling some of the most creative uses of plasticine in fields such as
The BBC has launched its ‘Superpower’ season, broadcasting a series of interesting programmes exploring the power of the internet. The image below is taken from
Nathan from FlowingData has published a post today which sets out a challenge to rework the graphic below, produced by the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Edward Tufte has announced today that he has been appointed by President Obama onto the four-man Recovery Independent Advisory Panel which will advise The Recovery Accountability and
It is well known how the power of a story can add so much effect to the exchange of information. It makes the communication interesting, accessible, simpler to understand and also has more chance of being remembered. It is not always a straightforward task to actually find a story within an a given problem context but, nevertheless, it is important to always at least try and approach such communications with an eye on logical sequence and narrative.
Not going to do this all the time, it probably makes for a boring read, but with one month elapsed since this site went live
This video is for the new OK Go song “This Too Shall pass”. The band is well known for producing highly original and immaculately choreographed
How Much Information? is a report published by academics from the Global Information Industry Center, University of California, San Diego. Released in December 2009 it presents
This last weekend I was in Barcelona and went on a tour around the Nou Camp stadium. This has to be one of the best
Most days when I go out for lunch I take a shortcut through the hospital building adjoining my office. I’m not talking about obscure rat
The images below show screenshots from the O2 ‘My Account’ app for the iPhone. In principle this is a very useful application to keep a
I am delighted to publish details of the ‘Increasing the Impact of Academic Excellence’ workshops, designed and delivered in partnership between Visualising Data Ltd and
This is a video of a TV news report analysing the tried and tested methods of structuring the news, picking apart the typical elements and production techniques of how reports are constructed.
The Guardian website has launched Zeitgeist, “a new way to reveal and explore content on the Guardian site, according to ‘social signals’ from users“. It presents
For those people reading who frequent some of the other sites covering similar data visualisation topics you might be expecting me to include in my first post one of two things…