After 11 months and two weeks of almost unbroken work, I’ve cleared things with the boss and tomorrow I will be going on holiday. It will be great to get away, lap up the sun and just exist in splendid, quiet isolation for a couple of weeks in order to fully recharge the batteries… I’ve […]
Those of you who visit the site regularly and follow my tweets will know that I’ve been busy on my Spring training schedule and this continues into the next couple of months with numerous public and private training events lined up. Whilst the schedule is packed for the immediate future, I now want to put
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Just a quick announcement to share that I’m going to be presenting at the inaugural meetup of the Chicago Data Visualization Group on Thursday 14th June from around 6:00pm. The location details are still be confirmed but as soon as they are, I’ll update this post or you can see information on the Meetup page.
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The issue of plagiarism vs. inspiration is not a new topic, it has been with us for years and is the fundamental basis of copyright and IP, but it is an increasingly important consideration for us in the visualisation field.
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Those of you who have watched the video footage from the recent SEE conference may have seen Manuel Lima’s talk on the ‘The Power of Networks: Knowledge in an age of infinite interconnectedness’.
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In recent months we’ve seen a number of new developments on the tools side of the visualisation field. We’ve had Datawrapper, the Miso project and are still waiting in anticipation for the releases of polychart and plot.io. Today sees the launch of Quadrigram, a ‘Visual Programming Environment to gather, shape, and share living data’. Quadrigram
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s part one of the latest collection from April 2012.
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s part one of the latest collection from April 2012
Best of the visualisation web… April 2012 (part 1) Read More »
Hello everyone. I felt compelled to break the silence with a brief update on matters. I’ve had quite a lot of traffic round these parts of late, thanks to sharing of my data journalism handbook post and Nathan’s inclusion of my site on his collection of blog reads.
A little update on things to break my silence! Read More »