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

Six-panel storytelling

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.

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Announcements

One month in…

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

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Design

‘OK Go’ music video

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

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Articles

How Much Information?

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

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Articles

The design of TV news reports

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.

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Articles

My first post…

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…

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