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.
As consumers of visualisations, before we form interpretations and conclusions from the charts we see, we have to remember that they are only a visual display of the data that has been collected and the way that data has been transformed.
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 the latest collection from December 2018.
Whilst driving yesterday evening I was listening to BBC Radio 6 Music and heard an interesting interview with members of the band Field Music. They are doing a pair of performances at the Imperial War Museums inspired by a document called ‘The End of the War’.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
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 the latest collection from November 2018.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
2018 was a milestone year with regards to delivering data visualisation training. I ran 38 different events around the world, of which 32 were private events and 6 were public courses, with training delivered to 1001 delegates in total.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
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 the latest collection from October 2018.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
I’m delighted to announce that the second edition of my book “Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design” will be published in July 2019.
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 the latest collection from September 2018.
Last week, having learnt about the Finnish translation of data visualisation, I put a tweet out enquiring what other translations are used around the world.
It was a pleasure to have the chance to participate in another Data Stories episode.
The range of data visualisation applications, tools and libraries continues to grow and to reflect the recent additions to this field I have updated my data visualisation resources collection. There are now 351 items in this directory organised generally across the 8 groupings:
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 the latest collection from August 2018.
It is always a pleasure to have the opportunity to join Jon Schwabish’s PolicyViz podcast and I was delighted to contribute to another episode last month whilst attending the Information+ Conference in Potsdam, Germany
Last year I came up with a slightly random idea to collect photographs of every 2-page spread in my book in different settings around the world. As a frequent business traveller I would take some but would also invite book owners, friends and family to complete the full set
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
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 the latest collection from July 2018.
Earlier today, I noticed in my calendar that I had saved a reminder, at some point in the past, to kindly inform myself that today is the milestone of my 15,000th day on this planet. I’m not sure what the tradition is for such occasions?
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 the latest collection from June 2018.
To mark each mid-year and end of year milestone 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. These are the main projects, events, new sites, trends, personalities and general observations that have struck me as being important to help further the development of this field.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
I would like to invite participants to submit a 7-question, 30 second survey to help me gather some evidence about the range of scenarios in which a visualisation may be created.
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 the latest collection from May 2018.
This is part of a series of posts about the ‘little of visualisation design’, respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.
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Last year I launched the #VisBookFlipBook project, an attempt to compile photographs of every 2-page spread in my book as taken by owners and readers of the book from across the globe. After an initial burst of enthusiasm, progress died, then I lapsed into pushing it down my to-do list as workload became overwhelming.
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 the latest collection from April 2018.
Last summer I launched the CHARTMAKER DIRECTORY, an attempt to gather and organise a useful catalogue of references that will offer a good sense of what charts can be made using which tools and, where necessary, how.