Whilst working on my book this afternoon a thought struck me: When, where and by whom was the term ‘data visualization’ or ‘information visualization’ (give or take an S or a Z) used? Was it Tufte? Was it Bertin? Tukey, perhaps? Surely it wasn’t Florence Nightingale or William Playfair? It feels like one of the […]
Live post: In search of the first use of ‘Data/Information Visualization’ Read More »
Given the attention on New Orleans and surrounding areas with respect to Hurricane Isaac, I’ve just taken a couple of quick screen recordings of Martin Wattenberg/Fernanda Viegas’ Hint FM ‘Wind Map’ and Stamen’s/TWC ‘Hurricane Tracker’ to show how things are developing down there.
Live visualisation views of Hurricane Isaac Read More »
Tasty Tweets is a data visualisation experiment that expands the usual encoding options beyond simple visuals. Developed by students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, the project allows users to explore current twitter trends through taste.
Tasty Tweets: Data representation through taste Read More »
Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper (broadsheet) and La Lettura is a cultural supplement published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper. The supplement is highly regarded and includes articles and works from the most famous Italian experts
Weekly ‘Visual Data’ section in Corriere della Sera 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 web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s part two of the latest collection from July 2012.
Best of the visualisation web… July 2012 (part 2) 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 web content I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s part one of the latest collection from July 2012
Best of the visualisation web… July 2012 (part 1) Read More »
About a month ago I announced the locations of my forthcoming series of ‘Introduction to Data Visualisation’ one-day training courses. After resolving some diary issues, I am finally now in position to announce the schedule of dates:
Announcing my data visualisation training course schedule Read More »
Just a quick mention for a fascinating new conference that will be held in New York City on the 8th and 9th of November. It is simply called Visualized and is described as ‘exploring the evolution of communication at the intersection of big data, storytelling and design’. My initial sense of this event is that
Visualized conference, New York, 8th-9th November Read More »
Last week I was pondering the issue of data visualisation style, a quite ambiguous and hard-to-put-your-finger-on idea that can be interpreted differently depending on your perspective. To me, today, its a combination of tone-of-voice, communication technique and visual identity but tomorrow, if you asked me I might change that definition. So its a hard thing
Discussion: Defining your data visualisation style Read More »
Last week I announced details of the upcoming Big Data World, Europe conference taking place in London on 19th and 20th September, an event I’ll be speaking at. At the time I said I would do a prize draw for a lucky reader to win a free pass to the full event. Subsequently, one became two
Announcing the winners of the ‘Big Data World’ free passes Read More »