A couple of months ago I launched my appeal for data visualisation stories from around the world. The purpose of this series is to invite designers, journalists, academics, bloggers, analysts or just simply residents, from as many different countries as possible, to illuminate the rest of us with their observations about the visualisation scene in […]
Data visualisation stories from… India, by Ananth Mani Read More »
A couple of months ago I launched my appeal for data visualisation stories from around the world. The purpose of this series is to invite designers, journalists, academics, bloggers, analysts or just simply residents, from as many different countries as possible, to illuminate the rest of us with their observations about the visualisation scene in
Data visualisation stories from… Brazil, by Alberto Cairo Read More »
Two posts from different feeds have combined to inspire me to ask this question and find out, from those of you out there who do design work, what working environments and workspaces you perform in. Firstly, I saw this review of a standing desk on Core77. I’m at the beginning of the tiresome process of selling
Send me a pic of your design workspace! Read More »
I feel compelled to share and briefly discuss this, even though it is getting plenty of column inches already via Twitter/blogs. It is an infographic published on visual.ly and produced for Microsoft to promote their cloud computing in the Asia Pacific.
Can a graphic be SO bad it starts to become good? Read More »
During my recent stint as guest-editor on Infosthetics, I profiled a new tool called DataAppeal which allows you to upload and map geospatial data in three-dimension on top of a Google Earth map.
DataAppeal maps US east coast earthquake Read More »
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, published details of his 2011 ‘State of the Word’, an annual overview of the headlines, success stories, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. Part of this narrative was based on results from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey, which got over
‘State of the Word’: What can you do with this WordPress survey data? Read More »
Last week I announced a quickfire contest where I was going to give away a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180 to one lucky person. To enter, all you had to do was submit a comment beginning with the phrase “Winning a 3M PocketProjector MP180 would be fantastic because…” and then provide a compelling reason why
Announcing the winner of the 3M PocketProjector MP180 giveaway! Read More »
A few weeks ago I published details of the O’Reilly Strata Conference event which is taking place in New York, between September 19 and 23. The finalised line up of speakers, sessions and topics has now been confirmed for the main part of the conference, “Making Data Work”, and I thought I would share my
Data Viz Schedule for O’Reilly Strata Conference Read More »
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from July 2011.
Best of the visualisation web… July 2011 Read More »
Following on from my review, I’m excited to announce a quick and easy-to-enter contest where one lucky reader will win a brand new 3M PocketProjector MP180, courtesy of 3M and FreshNetworks. To enter all you need to do is submit a comment against this blog post. The comment should begin with the phrase “Winning a
Submit a comment to enter 3M PocketProjector MP180 giveaway! Read More »