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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleDistorted 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...
View ArticleStephen 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleArticle: 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...
View ArticleMetaphor 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...
View ArticleProblems 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleGoogle’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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleDiscussion: 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...
View ArticleShould 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...
View ArticleDefending 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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