To mark the milestone of each mid-year and end of year 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.
10 significant visualisation developments: July to December 2011 Read More »
Just a quick announcement to share that I am absolutely thrilled and honoured to have been invited to attend Malofiej 20, the 20th edition of the ‘most important journalistic infographics event in the world’, as a judge and speaker. I will be providing updates on this site and via the Malofiej 20 blog, sharing my
Honoured to be a judge and speaker at Malofiej 20 Read More »
Here’s a nice little video wrap-up of 2011 from the splendid people at Visualizing.org, providing a quick look through the year’s events using their visualisation contests and uploaded visualisation projects to tell the story… You can navigate through a gallery of all the projects displayed in the video here.
Visualizing.org video tells the visualisation story of 2011 Read More »
The Google Zeitgeist report for 2011 has been published reviewing the most popular news, events, people and stories according to search queries typed into Google during the year. This year’s report contains a baffling 3D visualisation to present the top 10 lists.
The worst visualisation I’ve seen this year? Google Zeitgeist 2011 Read More »
For those of you interested in network visualisations I strongly recommend you have a look at Hive Plots. This is a site set up to publish the findings and technical solutions from research by Martin Krzywinski (et al) from the Genome Sciences Center, Vancouver. The project’s tag line “Rational Network Visualization – Farewell to Hairballs”,
Hive plots bid farewell to hairball visualisations Read More »
The Creative Review blog reports on a new poster show (‘Painting by Numbers‘) for early 2012 at the London Transport Museum which will be exhibiting some vintage data visualisations from the 1930s onwards. The works relate to a number of designs which were used to present the quality and benefits of using London’s public transport.
London Transport Museum historical visualisation exhibition Read More »
To reflect on a particularly volatile past 12 months economically-speaking, the BBC has published a collection of graphs nominated by some of the top economists around the world as being “the graph which had the greatest impact on them, which they thought best explains the current financial situation, or which tells us something significant about
Top economists reveal their graphs of 2011 Read More »
I spend most of my browsing life in Google Chrome these days and I’m a less angry more satisfied person because of it. But only today have I ever never noticed this handy little built-in visualisation feature. When you run a ‘find’ operation for a given term, the vertical scroll bar highlights shows you where,
Google Chrome’s helpful scrollbar ‘find’ visualisation Read More »
Last month I asked people to send me details of the locations where they would ideally be interested in attending one of my one-day ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation‘ public training courses. I have now combined the recent requests with all the previous expressions of interest and have collated a clear picture of where the most
Data visualisation training course locations (Jan-Jun 2012) Read More »
Once again it’s my pleasure to be supporting the third O’Reilly Strata Conference, which will be taking place in Santa Clara, California between February 28 and March 1 (don’t forget it’s a leap year!). Described as the ‘the home of data science’, the conference brings together some of the very best developers, data scientists, data
O’Reilly Strata Conference, Santa Clara 2012 (20% reader discount) Read More »