A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
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 […]
“The designer who wants to be more than a mere decorator must apply his thinking to the proper ‘tone of voice’ for presenting statistics. […] A bar chart is nothing but the skeleton of a story until the designer decides that it’s a message that should be shouted or whispered, or giggled, or just admitted.” […]
I first wanted to call this post “What is steganography?”. I chose against it, because this post acts as a review of “Record, Map & Culture in Textile Art” by Jordan Cunliffe, a book I have had the pleasure of reading and taking inspiration from. And I didn’t want the subject of this review to […]
The first draft of this post initially had a simpler question: “What is an encyclopaedia?” This first question might seem like a strange question – those of you who are around about my age will know well (albeit those of you from across the pond may debate the spelling). But there are genuinely people, more […]
This is my review of “Present Beyond Measure”, subtitled “Design, Visualize and Deliver Data Stories that Inspire Action” published last month in Nightingale, the Data Visualisation Society’s online publication, you can find the original review here: https://nightingaledvs.com/present-beyond-measure-book-review/ I first became aware of Lea Pica from a Data Storytelling webinar facilitated by the data training platform DataCamp in […]
Over the course of the last several years of this blog, you’ve got a good level of insight into how I think. But this post isn’t about me – how do great visualisation designers think? This (with the exception of me anglicising the spelling and emphasising the word “great”) is the subtitle and premise of […]
This post is an impressive piece of procrastination even for me, being over fourteen months in the making, starting from a podcast interview I gave with Alli Torban in November 2022, but I’ve been able to resurrect, rewrite and complete it with the launch of Alli’s new book: Chart Spark. Coinciding almost exactly with the […]
So before you think I’m ending my longish absence on this site by making a grand re-entrance swooping back in with some controversial opinions on maps, this post is my review of Terrible Maps by Michael Howe. I feel like I should address my recent absence on the site, but on reflection I don’t think […]
Questions in Dataviz 