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Gadget Review – The 3M PocketProjector MP180

Last week I published a review of Visualize This, the new visualisation book and I’m continuing on the review trail today but this time its about a very different subject. The 3M PocketProjector MP180...

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Can a graphic be SO bad it starts to become good?

I feel compelled to share and briefly discuss this, even though it is getting plenty of column inches already via Twitter/blogs. It is an infographic published on visual.ly and produced for Microsoft...

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Distorted and misleading graphics on Sky Sports

I’d just got comfortable and in place to watch the Sunday afternoon football on Sky Sports, looking forward to having a bit of mental breathing space from all things data visualisation, when up pops...

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Stephen Few’s criticism of information visualisation research

Stephen Few has published an article today criticising the state of research in the information visualisation field. I’m a great admirer of Stephen. His work was largely the reason I discovered this...

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The worst visualisation I’ve seen this year? Google Zeitgeist 2011

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...

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Article: The 8 hats of data visualisation design

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”. In this article I want to...

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Metaphor too far? The anatomy of a visualisation designer

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...

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Problems with interpreting multiple-colour legends

Just a quick post to respond to a piece I’ve just been sent because it reinforces one of the issues I point out in my training sessions. The graphic was produced by the BBC in reaction to Bradley...

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Guest post: How Governments can better use data visualization

This is a guest post from Jon Schwabish, an economist and data visualization creator. You can reach him at jschwabi@yahoo.com or by following him on Twitter @jschwabish.   As an economist working for...

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Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 report is… really bland

Those of you with memories that stretch at least 362 days will recall my rather incendiary post (kind of) from December of last year that brought attention to the utter uselessness of Google’s 2011...

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Book review –‘The Functional Art’, by Alberto Cairo

I would be surprised if many people out there have not heard of Alberto Cairo, given the vast amount of different channels and contexts through which he is active in the data visualisation field. For...

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Why I like really this visualisation: US Gun Murders 2010

This week Periscopic released a striking new project titled ‘US Gun Murders in 2010‘. It has already been showcased on all the major data visualisation and design sites, and rightly so. I love it. I...

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Discussion: Storytelling and success stories

I’ve not been able to keep up with all threads but it seems there have been a number of interesting discussions over the past few days covering various aspects of the role of data visualisation and...

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Should you ‘trust’ data visualisations?

There has been much discussion this past couple of days about John Burn-Murdoch’s article in the Guardian ‘Why you should never trust a visualisation‘ which was itself a response to an earlier article...

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Defending the ‘Incredible GDP Map’

Yesterday there was a fair bit of twittering about a map that was ‘doing the rounds’. The map shows where 50% of the GDP of the US comes from geographically. I came across it via a tweet from Ian...

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