Having picked up a recent blog post by Stephen Few about a graph that had been promoted as an example of good practice by Oracle’s BI suite, I was searching around for reports on BI vendors and came across a decision matrix report by DataMonitor from 2007. The report I unearthed was on the SAS site, […]
I’ve been sent a link to an interesting new service offered by 3M (who despite apparently having a portfolio of 55,000 products I still think of as the Post-it Note company). It is called the ‘Visual Attention Service’ and is pitched around the tag line “You’ve got seconds to engage a viewer. Be sure they count”: As
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Not sure how and why I’ve missed this publication for so long but today I’ve come across Information Age magazine having unearthed links to a couple of very interesting articles which I recommend you read. Firstly, one published today entitled “The Analytical Eye” talks about the as-yet untapped potential of data visualisation across business. It contains discussions
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Via The Big Picture website I’ve come across a New York Times graphic sequence explaining the national debt levels across European states. The sequence presents seven different graphics that build a story of the debt crisis across the continent and I want to comment on a couple of aspects of these displays which I feel
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The trickle of government bodies and large-scale organisations freeing up their data for transparency, scrutiny and creative exploration is quickly turning into something of a flow.
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Here are some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during April 2010. I don’t necessarily agree with all the principles, opinions or advice presented in these links but sometimes consuming such information can only help enhance your knowledge on a subject:
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I’ve come across an infographic today (via cool infographics) that was originally published in February on Focus.com, a business expertise exchange and research service. I’ve shown the full length of the graphic below, a larger version can be accessed here.
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The Guardian has put together a photo gallery showing shots of some of the election night TV coverage through the years right up to some of the technology likely to be on show tonight. The coverage choice for UK viewers this evening and throughout most of tomorrow will be between BBC1, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Sky
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Visitors to the site will notice a new collection of icons and links on the right sidebar that connect to the Visualising Data social web accounts and channels. These provide a range of different platforms to digest and access the opinion, information, examples and resources that I publish on this site. The RSS feeds have been
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With only a few hours to go before the UK general election polls open, the level of interest and media exposure is reaching fever pitch. It is quite simply the closest, most interesting and important election many of us have ever been experienced. As I have posted throughout the campaigning period, the news and media sites
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