Talk: Web Maps and Data Visualisation
Presented at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway as part of a series of informal workshops to share practice-based expertise, know-how and experience in technologies and method, useful to anyone engaged in Digital Scholarship type activity. This workshop introduced key aspects of visualising research data using web-based maps. Participants had the opportunity to get hands-on and… | Read on »
Talk: Interactive Data Visualisation for Researchers
These slides are from a workshop given to Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Students as part of NARTI (Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative) at Northumbria Business School, Newcastle, UK in January 2018. This was part of a 1-day workshop on Positioning Your Research for Impact and Interactive Data Visualisation. The aim was to provide participants… | Read on »
Talk: Introduction to Interactive Data Visualisation
As part of a session on Infographics & Data Visualisation for researchers from the Moore Institute and the Whitaker Institute, I gave a talk on an “Introduction to Interactive Data Visualisation” – you can see the slide-deck below, or on SpeakerDeck. The talk covered examples of data visualisation, some areas to avoid, and examples of… | Read on »
Airbnb in Galway – Exploring through Data Visualisation
I did some work exploring the number of Airbnb rental properties in Galway – it was inspired by a number of articles looking at the impact of Airbnb in a number of other cities and regions. You’ll find links to those articles at the bottom of: www.davidkelly.ie/airbnb. One of the questions I was curious about… | Read on »
Podcast: Data Visualisation & Digital Tools for Enhancing Research Projects
In December I recorded a podcast with Angela Sice from the Whitaker Institute on “Exploration, Accessibility & Impact: Data Visualisation & Digital Tools for Enhancing Research Projects”. We discussed the work I’ve been doing with researchers at the Institute – it covers an overview of some of the projects I have worked on, and suggestions… | Read on »
EU Code Week – Coding in Galway’s Primary Schools
Last week was EU Code Week, where children were encouraged to take part in an Hour of Code. It’s part of an initiative to help build digital literacy in young people. Read more about the initiative in Galway2020’s introduction to the project. The week ended with 74 primary schools taking part – meaning… | Read on »
A Tribal Vision – Galway’s Creative Culture
Back in June we had an idea to explore the people responsible for creating and working in Galway’s artistic and cultural communities. The result of that was A Tribal Vision. The site is a collaboration between myself, Jo Lavelle and Boyd Challenger. The idea was to publish one in-depth interview (Jo’s area of expertise) each week. We… | Read on »
GalwayDashboard.ie – exploring Galway with data visualisation
The official launch of GalwayDashboard.ie happened in July. The dashboard, which I designed and developed, was part of an Economic Baseline Assessment project led by the Whitaker Institute, in collaboration with Galway City and Galway County Councils. The objective was to pull together open data that was available about Galway, and present it in a useful, interactive and user-friendly… | Read on »
Robertson Network Data Visualisations
The visualisations are based on a small dataset that shows the path of postal surveys among a network of people, connected to William Robertson (1721–1793). The data is the result of research by Dr. Ida Federica Pugliese, at the Moore Institute in NUI Galway. The objective was to create a set of visualisations suitable for… | Read on »
Nominated in the 2014 DH Awards – Best Data Visualisation
The “Exploring Dáil Transcript Visualisation” that I did late last year is nominated in this year’s Digital Humanities Awards. Awards are given based on a public vote, so if you have a few seconds to spare, it would be great if you could fill in the Voting Form – my project is the first option in the Data Visualisation… | Read on »