- Pretty!!! Find out how green 🙂 RT @ABCtech Ed: Just had go in this Tesla http://yfrog.com/h5cklfj #wantsone 0-100 sub 4secs. Totally silent #
- I think when it comes to ppl not in politics, the traditional labels of left or right don't really apply anymore. Most ppl are just ppl #
- Interview between @katelundy and Gary Humphries this morning http://bit.ly/dSNhGw on carbon pricing for those interested. #auspol #
- Oh that's hilarious RT @twoscomplement: @piawaugh Seems relevant 😉 : About OS updates http://bit.ly/enP2Ft (via @mefspb) #
- Just started following @ABCtech, some good stuff for geeks & techie ppl 🙂 (being a geek, of course I use that term for power of good 😉 #
- Few: "if we want to compare things, we need them in front of our eyes at the same time." Logical but underused wisdom #datavis #
- Perhaps RT @camcgr: Microsoft products stuff up – the reason is we all expect a higher standard from Mac and Linux as its sold on that basis #
- Totally 🙂 Also great tools for awesomeness but for most, misery RT @shorebuck: @piawaugh all computers are boxes of misery is my philosophy #
- Why is it simply accepted by most ppl when Microsoft products stuff up, but if Macs or Linux stuff up there is a different standard applied? #
- Few currently discussing importance of not just making sense of data, but the skills to communicate narrative to ppl. Book "Switch" #datavis #
- Fews: Eyes have most receptors, highest bandwidth, highest conscious bandwidth & generally most powerful sense. Using cute graphs #datavis #
- Few: data sense-making process Discovery-> Examine-> Understanding -> Explain -> Decision. Few: eyes most important, I reckon brain #datavis #
- For @cafuego, the "poopy pant photo" 😉 http://t.co/9gnrnMn #
- Lovely evening with @kattekrab & @cafuego. Yummy dinner, walk along pier & awesome inspiring discussion. Thx hugs! 😀 http://t.co/u1TC6YB #
- We are going into fonts at the Stephen Few course. Argh! I am surrounded by typofiles! @jdub @kattekrab @klepas @sundress @katelundy 😛 #
- Stephen Few has a fictitious org chart with Gordon Gekko, Bill Lumbergh, Ari Gold, Miranda Priestly & Matthew Scott – Hilarious! 🙂 #datavis #
- For those interested in free sparklines: http://bit.ly/1Ly0fG for OOo or http://bit.ly/90Lc for excel (invented by Tufte) #datavis #
- Today's #datavis on dashboards comes down to a) provide status + context + assessment b) simplify & don't be limited by tech & c) think! #
- Wow! Will help a lot of SMEs with gov work 🙂 RT @sherro58 New, improved!!! simple contract templates for <$80k http://bit.ly/gnN5JB #gov2au #
- Ran into @DavidTangye at the Stephen Few course 🙂 Always good to run into other tweeps IRL 🙂 #datavis #
- At Stephen Few course in Melbourne, today: "dashboard design" for "at a glance monitoring". Creepy #datavis for #opengov & democracy? 😉 #
- Just signed up for @barcampcanberra, very excited! 🙂 Am thinking of doing a talk on #datavis or perhaps an update on #gov2au Should be fun #
- Sometimes I read things that make me angry. A good friend (Muslim) advised me recently "don't let people make you upset or they win". True #
- Colour blind simulator – useful for #datavis and other design stuff http://www.vischeck.com/ #
- Apart from being all flash, this is a useful site for colour selection in #datavis (& probably general) design http://colorbrewer2.org/ #
- Wow, great & depressing RT @LaTrioli International language of sexual violence: my take on the Lara Logan controversy. http://bit.ly/dHxEb2 #
- The "Graph design IQ test" by Stephen Few – interesting! http://www.perceptualedge.com/files/GraphDesignIQ.html #datavis #
- Also just learnt from my #datavis course, I should trust my instincts, even if others have done this stuff for longer 😉 #
- I think #datavis is a bit like life, you resort to habits & "conventional" knowledge but really you need to think for yourself 🙂 #
- Stephen Few referenced Hans Rosling http://www.gapminder.org/. Few says gapminder a good eg of how imprecise #datavis can still be useful #
- As I sit here in a 9am-5pm 3 day course, I'm reminded how completely ill equipped we are to just sit for hours on end #schooldays #datavis #
- RT @infoholic: @piawaugh I tell my students that every time a pie chart is used a kitten dies. #datavis #
- RT to #datavis @chris_bloke doh! that should of course be http://www.paraview.org/ #IwishIcouldType #
- Stephen Few's paper "Save the pies for dessert" (find on http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php) #datavis Funny how they're so popular #
- If Stephen Few ever comes to Canberra, I suggest all #gov2au #opendata and #opengov ppl attend. Great stuff! #datavis #
- Turns out a lot of people at this #datavis course are vendors & "dashboard" experts. Less ppl here to learn how to analyse/communicate… #
- Guilty RT @xSunili A common experience. #OWtime RT @njba: Walk into officeworks. In what feels like five minutes half an hour passes. #
- Yay! Latest recording from "Therapy" (our nominal band name) I present to you (the hopefully amusing) "Leave you blue" http://bit.ly/gQZXlw #
- Totally! 🙂 Add her to the slidedeck! 😉 RT @kattekrab: @piawaugh @philipri – does that make Flo Nightingale an infogeek? 😉 #datavis #
- Thanks! 🙂 RT @SMinney: @piawaugh that is in most psych introductory texts if that helps #datavis #
- I didn't know, thx! RT @philipri: Don't forget Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of charts/infographics during Crimean War #datavis #
- Totally RT @mtchl: @piawaugh @brendam interactive data vis is the go for exploration and insight, IMHO #datavis #
- And for anyone wondering why I'm tweeting to #datavis and not #dataviz I'm an Australian 😉 #
- Great to be in a #datavis course that is so practical and applicable to *all* data visualisation design tools, from spreadsheets to BI 🙂 #
- It can be hard to get balance right between clarity of data presentation and what might be interpreted as highlighting info #datavis #
- Currently looking at visual perception & how the eyes work to try to better understand good design practice. #dataviz #
- #datavis tools I'm playing with atm: http://spatialkey.com/ (which I love) & now http://www.tableausoftware.com/ via @damiendonnelly (thx!) #
- Currently looking at Paul Grice's "conversational maxims" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Grice #datavis – very interesting #
- Few: Today/tomorrow we be focusing on effective visual communication of data, Friday we look at how to think about/analyse data #datavis #
- Hey #gov2au peeps, some of you may be interested in my #datavis tweets today as I'm livetweeting some of my Stephen Few course 🙂 V cool #
- Few: "I asked vendors why they encourage 3d graphs when they rarely work. Response: that's why we let customers rotate them" Insane #datavis #
- Interestingly, so far the course on good #datavis is reminiscent of #gungfu principles: no wasted effort, reconnaissance, act don't bluff 🙂 #
- Few: "Don't be limited by your software." Great sentiment that should be applied across the board </grumbly-techie> #datavis #
- Few: "People incorrectly think tools make you competent but we need to ensure we bring skills to the table too." #datavis #
- Interesting book about problem of ppl using numbers to misrepresent, I'm sure my Dad would like 🙂 "How to lie with Statistics" Darrell Huff #
- Anyone that uses The Onion as part of a training course rocks 🙂 http://bit.ly/4nKP "Do you see the concentric circles?!?" "click" #datavis #
- Heh, line, bar and pie charts invented by a Scottish guy a few hundred years ago. Funny 🙂 #datavis #
- Personally I believe, data visualisation is really useful to both make data more accessible, but also to find new insights and understanding #
- Just met & chatted 2 Stephen Few prior to being in his data vis course. He's awesome! Course looks gr8! Passed on ur comments @DorisSpiel 🙂 #
- Wow, great article by George Brandis "Politicans must defend the multicultural project" http://t.co/ZdionqJ #multiculturalpolicy #
- Had to hold myself back from buying Assassin's Creed Brotherhood book at airport. Realised it'd probably be awful so will research 1st 🙂 #
- Suit:normal clothes ratio in Canberra fights is always far higher than other places. It's funny to watch ppl try to figure each other out 😉 #
- Going to Melbourne to learn about dataviz from Stephen Few, very excited! Bought new pratchett for company (unseen academicals) 🙂 #
- Check out "Innocent Arctic", awesome photo exhibition. Proceeds sponsor polar bears, yay! 🙂 I'll visit this weekend http://bit.ly/dUqdRR #
- Another way to read this article could be "Yay, secular citizenship ceremony doesn't include bibles" 😉 http://bit.ly/hQIZUw #auspol #
- For anyone in Sydney who loves photography, check out this awesome exhibition, opening Friday night 🙂 http://emmarowankelly.com/news.html #
- Interesting RT @australian Redneck radio may be on the way out, at least in the US | The Australian http://tinyurl.com/6humalq #
- Thoughtful article RT @australian Home-grown values a multicultural triumph | The Australian http://tinyurl.com/4ghqnyy #