I was recently interviewed for Mindjet’s ‘Conspire’ website, a new resource which I’ve admittedly only come across over the past couple of months but seems to have some great content. Anyway, if you are so inclined, just click on the image below to be taken to a page containing my ramblings…
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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 two of the latest collection from May 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 May 2012
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As I was writing my previous post about my thinking behind ‘The 8 hats of data visualisation design’ I realised that the theme of body parts was emerging strongly. So here’s an alternative perspective on this matter, throwing away the hats and switching on the Frankenstein lab… This is the super-hero visualisation designer I want
Metaphor too far? The anatomy of a visualisation designer Read More »
Last week I posted a slideshare version of my slides from a recent pair of presentation events in Chicago. The title of this talk was “The 8 hats of data visualisation”.
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Last Thursday I had an enjoyable half hour or so chatting with Ben Jones of DataRemixed.com. Ben recorded the conversation and has now published both the audio and some narrative of this chat on his site.
Interviewed by Ben Jones of DataRemixed.com Read More »
We’ve had a number of interesting new project releases of late (see this, this and that) and today continues that pattern with another super visualisation development produced for the International Energy Agency (IEA) on energy technologies.
Energy technologies visualisation for the IEA Read More »
Below you will find an embedded slideshare version of the slides used in last week’s pair of talks at Orbitz HQ and the inaugural Chicago Data Viz meetup. As I’ve said a few times before, I’m a reluctant sharer of slides, not because I’m protective of my material, but because they serve as purely visual
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One of the matters that I cover at the start of my data visualisation training courses is a brief reflection on visualisation’s popularity in a mainstream sense and how it has now penetrated (and continues) parts of culture and society that it would never really have managed to do even 5 years ago.
Visualisation in the mainstream: Jimmy Carr tax infographic Read More »
The smart folks over at Stamen Design have come up with some more of their mapping goodness with a great tool that I’m pretty sure everybody will appreciate: a travel planner that includes a layer of weather forecast data for your journey
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