On February 5th 2010 I published my very first Visualising Data post, focusing on a rather poor quality 3D pie chart about the Liverpool vs. Tottenham game which had taken place a couple of weeks earlier. Strange then to think that two years later Liverpool and Tottenham are scheduled to clash again tomorrow and I’m *still* going on about 3D pie charts… Maybe I need to move on a bit with the depth and breadth of my analysis?

Anyway, it is great to reach this milestone and it is only possible because of all you thousands of ladies and gentlemen kindly visiting, reading, commenting, sharing and interacting with me and my content. I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone for swinging by and sticking around and to mark the occasion I also want to launch a little prize contest.

A Contest!

As you will have seen (hard not to, I do keep banging on about it) I have a busy schedule of data visualisation training courses coming up over the next 6 months and beyond. Places are being snapped up at a very encouraging rate and so before any one of my events gets fully booked up I want to offer one lucky reader a place at any one of my scheduled locations completely free of charge.

Current Training Schedule

The current schedule of public events is listed below. In some cases the exact date and confirmed venues are yet to be finalised but these will be announced as soon as possible. If you don’t see a location to suit you, register your interest with Andy Kirk via email.

Enter Now!

To enter, all you have to do is submit a comment against this post starting with the phrase “I would love to attend the [location name] training course because…” and explain why you would like to receive the training.
Don’t worry if you haven’t got the most tangible, noble or compelling reason because on Monday 13th February at 9am (GMT) I will do a random draw of all the submitted comments and pick one name out.
So, good luck to all who decide to enter and thanks again to everyone for their wonderful support!