In my quest to review as many data and design themed books as possible during 2021, I will be mixing books I have owned but not yet read with brand new books as they are released. One such book that I have been really excited about is Data Sketches, by Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu. […]
Category: book reviews
How do you make the world add up?
The answer to this one is easy – you read Tim Harford’s book: “How to Make the World Add Up” *. But it’s only fair that I give a little bit more of a detailed answer, so this post is a review of the book, first published in 2020. As with many of these books […]
How can statistics help us understand the world?
This question forms the perfect title for this blog post, since it is the first question on the back of the book “The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data” written by Sir David Spiegelhalter. I first learned about David Spiegelhalter when I watched his keynote at the UK Tableau Conference in London in 2017. His […]
What is the difference between typeface and font?
Last year, I hosted a Fireside Chat with the Data Visualization Society on Typography for Data Visualisation. You can see the full discussion below – I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and emerged with a new enthusiasm and determination to learn more about how I could make the right font design decisions in my data visualisations. […]
When is a book more than just a book?
The answer, of course, is when it is a portal to the universe. I could stop there, but that wouldn’t do justice to this as a book review, my first of several promised for 2021. I’ve chosen to review “I am a book. I am a portal to the universe” for many reasons. Firstly, it’s […]