I came across this brilliant Medium post title Design & Redesign in Data Visualisation which discusses the recent trend of the design critique in dataviz. Last year, Alberto Cairo wrote …
The size of Comet 67P
Nigel Hawtin from New Scientist shared this image with us today of Comet 67P compared with Downtown LA. :) comet #67P/ #Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the ground. pic.twitter.com/3ByhPM5bYS — michel (@quark1972) August 18, …
A talk by Muyueh Lee at Open Data Workshop 2013
I revisit Muyueh Lee’s talk titled, Green Honey from the Open Data Workshop held in London in 2013. This process represents some concepts that I believe are true in visualization: Keep …
Brent Yorgey’s Factorization Diagrams
Brent Yorgey has written a post on Visualisations using factors (Factorization Diagrams). Recently Jason Davies has written on the Diagrams using D3 and a demo by Vjeux. In 2012 Brent …
Visualization definition
vɪʒjʊəlʌɪz, -zj-| (also visualise) verb [ with obj. ] form a mental image of; imagine: it is not easy to visualize the future. make (something) visible to the eye: the …
Edward Tufte’s Slopegraphs
Charlie Park has written an insightful article on Edward Tufte’s Slopegraphs
Protovis is replaced by D3
Protovis, the free and open-source visualisation JavaScript library has been replaced by D3 a new visualisation library with improved support for animations and interactions. http://mbostock.github.io/protovis The final release of Protovis …
Google’s Prediction API
Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
A list of 22 free Visualization Tools
ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
Oliver O’Brien & Pablo Mateos’ Census Profiler
While reading Daniel J Lewis’ blog on Geography and Info Visualisation (which is superb by the way), I came across this excellent census data and map visualisation by Oliver O’Brien …
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Ralph Lengler and Martin J Eppler have published an insightful table of Visualization Methods. The Table is taken from the paper Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for ManagementLengler …
The IBM History Flow research project
I’ve been reading up on a variety of projects whilst here in the UK. One I found particularly interesting is the IBM History Flow research project. The project is part …
Newsmaps visualisation of information
Peter forwarded this link to Newsmap, an interesting way of representing the Google News Aggregator. Treemap’s are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information.
Edward Tufte’s 2nd edition book of Envisioning Information
I revist design master Edward Tufte’s website to look for his 2nd edition of his book, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information (2nd Edition) and also to revisit the ASK-ET section, where users/people …