A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
First – an explanation. The majority of my visualisations are done using Tableau and published on Tableau Public (here). Available for all to see, it’s a great resource for experimenting and publishing work that you’re happy for all to see. Click on it today and you’ll see there are 190000+ authors, 25M+ views/month and over […]
In a blog where I’m posing every post as a question, this was by far the biggest question of the week in the UK. In fact, probably the biggest political question of my lifetime. But this is a data visualisation blog, so there’s no way I’m answering that particular question. The main point though, is […]
Yesterday, in my professional capacity, I attended a conference in Oxford related to data science in government. That makes me sound much grander than I am, but in reality it was a get-together for data scientists/analysts, researchers and policy makers to network and learn some of the data science work being done by government departments. […]
Data visualisations can cover just about any topic, from the sublime to the ridiculous; from the serious to the frivolous. I’ve seen no end of powerful visualisations on police brutality, casualties in war, mass shootings, the list goes on. Many more of these have surfaced, either new or updated, in the wake of the recent […]
Obviously the answer to this is “yes”, at least inasmuch as it can’t be the other way round. I’ve learnt (well, I knew really – let’s say “confirmed”) today that you can’t just decide on a visualisation without thoroughly knowing your data and its suitability for the job. Take the excellent visualisation below, published in […]
As the 2016 French Open Tennis began a couple of weeks ago, the withdrawal of Roger Federer through injury was major story, both from a sport perspective (Federer remains a leading contender and his absence will be a major boost to his competitors) and from a data perspective (Federer is so consistent, that he has […]
Questions in Dataviz 