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 value sight-seeing events I’ve ever done, the highlight of which is the museum leg of the tour and the truly outstanding multimedia installation. The first thing you come across is a darkened […]
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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 runs through wards or surgery sessions but there is a route down a series of public corridors. On one of these corridors, in one of the more remote, dark locations in
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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 close eye on your track on your available free minutes and texts and details of additional charges outside of your contract. If you assess, however, the number of items of
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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 The Visual Perspective Ltd. These workshops provide delegates with practical skills and theoretical knowledge about the importance of applying visual thinking principles to all forms of information and communication design.
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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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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 a dynamic, alternative interface for navigating to content from across the site and is, in simple terms, based on the more popular items of the day. This offers a different
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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…