A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
This post is a review of Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers by Giorgia Lupi and Phillip Cox. Well, it’s partly a review. It’s also partly an excuse to talk about the workshop I’m running with Sophie Sparkes next week, but I’ll get to that (I […]
Hello! If you’re receiving this, chances are you know me through Questions in Dataviz — whether through the book, the website, or something I’ve shared over the years. The website has been up for 10 years, and this is the first update I’ve sent from here. But recent months on the website have been quiet. There are […]
Yes – It’s time for me to embrace the Granny Life. Not a sentence I was expecting to write any time soon. And also nothing to do with the recent realisation that my personal Meldrew Point is fast approaching next month (no, “I don’t believe it” either), but more to do with the possibility of […]
As questions go, this is definitely one I couldn’t have anticipated being an immediately obvious candidate when I started my data visualisation career. It’s certainly “niche”. But has all followed from the paths I continue to be fascinated by. I often return for inspiration to my ideas of fabric inspired visualisations and steganography taking inspiration […]
Anyone who becomes involved in data visualisation will become interested in colour palettes. We know the importance of colour from a best principles perspective and from a cultural perspective – it’s something I wrote about right at the start of this blog (was it really nine years ago?!), which formed a crucial chapter of my […]
ChART is Nadieh Bremer’s second book, following on from Data Sketches, co-authored with Shirley Wu and released in 2021. The simple title is explained by the subtitle: Designing Creative Data Visualizations from Charts to Art and looks at the scale of Nadieh Bremer’s work along a spectrum from charts to full on data art. I’ve […]
I’ve always loved the idea of visualising data on postcards, ever since learning of the seminal Dear Data project. For those who don’t know the project, it consisted of Giorgia Lupi (in US) and Stefanie Posavec (in UK) sending each other one postcard a week, always with self-collected personal data, visualised by hand on a […]
AI is pretty much everywhere these days. As I type, AI is trying to help me create this blog post. I’m writing this post from the point of view of someone inquisitive with AI – I don’t consider myself a pioneer or an expert user, but I’m happy to dip my toe in the world […]
The question might be a strange one – here’s the thinking behind it. Many of my blog posts (and indeed, my book), have been based on the premise that I am both unskilled and unconfident at producing anything creative using traditional manual means. Pens, paper, crafts, physical creations, anything like that, have filled me with […]