The data visualisation know-how project
Because, in a world awash with data, it is those who can make sense of charts and graphs who get to shape that world At last my PhD research project is taking shape. In the course of many jobs, far…
Visualisation literacy: The PhD
Since about the time of my last blog post my year has been gearing up towards today, my first day as student again after 20 years… A perfect storm of factors at the beginning of this year has come to…
Quoting others
Just to point you to a new page on my site listing a selection of resources relating to visual journalism, data journalism, infographics and data visualisation. I keep making different versions of this for different people, so this is an…
Networks: Coming to a network near you soon
If you haven’t been asked to create a network diagram yet, you will be soon. Here’s some good context, illustrating how we’ve got to our current state of organised complexity. See and hear the full story below – another excellent…
Learning to spot patterns
Seeing this lovely set of playing cards gives me the excuse to air a thought I had a while ago. As a child I played cards lots. And the skills I didn’t realise I was learning are dead useful for…
Infograduates?
I was just updating dates for the grad shows I usually visit in London – over there in the right-hand column ‘Food for thought in London’ – and once again the volume of work on offer is enormous. So, to…
Education – time for a change
There is no obvious career path for people who end up being infografistas, and maybe that’s because it pulls on a raft of skills from a raft of disciplines that aren’t addressed by our education system today. And I’m well…