Inspired by the great work done by Paul Butler to visualise Facebook friendship connections across the globe, London-based web developer Jim Holden has produced some great mapping visuals of the UK using postcode, bus stop and road network data. Click on the images below for larger more detailed image versions, which do the visualisations more […]
Creative visualisations of the UK Read More »
This is the seventh article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together
Visualisation Insights: #7 Executive Director of Information Services Read More »
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from December 2010:
Best of the visualisation web… December 2010 Read More »
This is a follow-up post to my sixth article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published earlier this week. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insights article, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Why did I choose this subject? Recalling the purpose of
Visualisation Reflections: #6 Data Journalist & Information Designer Read More »
Following my recent visualisation contest I am delighted to announce that, thanks to the kind folks at O’Reilly, I have a second free pass to give away for one lucky person to attend the Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference in February. With time running out before the event kicks off on the 1st February I’m
Twitter raffle for free conference pass Read More »
This is the sixth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together
Visualisation Insights: #6 Data Journalist & Information Designer Read More »
This is a follow-up post to my fifth article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published just before Christmas. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insights article, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Why did I choose this subject? I first came across
Visualisation Reflections: #5 Head of Data Visualisation Read More »
I hope all readers and visitors have had a pleasant break over the past week or so. Things have been pretty quiet on this site and recently across the blogosphere (hate that word but it does the job) but judging by the increased number of feeds and tweets I’ve been picking up today, it seems