It’s been a while since my last post (for me, anyway). Partly because I’ve been busy, and partly because I’ve been procrastinating a bit. The usual kind of reasons. But another key reason is that I had a half-written blog post which hasn’t really been going anywhere. So this represents a bit of a re-write […]
Tag: iron viz
How important is feedback?
This post is on my to-do list to write tonight, because I’m keen to share my thoughts on the subject based around a couple of my recent visualisations. But it’s pertinent that I was in a training course today at work (edit: earlier this week, it’s taken me a while to finish this!) – nothing […]
Where can I get hard to find datasets?
Often for personal visualisation projects, the hardest part can be getting hold of an interesting or relevant dataset. I’m not talking about the drudgery of cleaning or reshaping data for your chosen visualisation tool, which we know can also be difficult and/or time-consuming, but of actually getting hold of data in the first place. Currently […]
So, what were the chances of that?!
This weekend (I’m writing this on a Tuesday evening) there’s the deadline for entering the second feeder contest for Iron Viz. Iron Viz is one of the highlights of every Tableau Conference, where three winners of the feeder contests perform on stage in front of 12000 or so people to produce an amazing viz in […]