A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
So, is it OK to steal? Of course not. In the data visualisation context, that would be passing someone else’s work off as your own. Anyone would agree that would be the wrong thing to do. But that would make a very short and uninteresting post. At the very least, I’m shooting for quite long […]
This question and therefore this post has come about as a result of a conference talk I am giving tomorrow. The overall conference theme is the Culture and Politics of Data Visualisation and I’m excited to have been asked to talk at an event for the first time. Specifically, my talk focusses around my professional […]
Because the gimmick of this blog seems to be to pose and answer a question in every post, I wasn’t sure whether to ask “How important is creativity …?” or “What is creativity …?” but either way creativity in data visualisations is what I want to talk about in this post. A little while ago […]
I probably mention Makeover Monday (or, to give it its twitter name – #MakeoverMonday) quite a lot in passing, so this is a post not just to explain what it is, but how it has helped me, both in terms of my skills and confidence in Tableau in particular, and in terms of becoming part of […]
First – before anyone writes in, it’s possible that there are Africa grid maps out there. But I haven’t seen any. And second, I’m not certain whether you’d call these grid maps, tile maps or both. For the purposes of this entry I’ll probably alternate between both terms. Anyhow, last week I wanted to visualise […]
This latest blog post is somewhat overdue but I want to talk about clustering. Though I try and keep my blog posts fairly software-neutral it’s probably clear that most (though by no means all) of my experience and published visualisations are using Tableau. So this particular post focuses more than usual on the clustering feature […]
Here’s a post about my latest significant visualisation – it’s Olympic-themed, centred around all the decathlon greats from 1984 to the present day. I’m genuinely quite happy, but not delighted, with it. Click on the image below to see the interactive version on Tableau Public. And please, if you like to explore this kind of […]
A quick(-ish) post to answer today’s question, about a very quick visualisation. Yesterday, in response to the appalling terrorist events in Nice, a visualisation was published in order put into perspective the fact that Muslim terrorist groups were such a small minority compared to the overall Muslim population. A great notion and worthy of a […]
First answer – as a pedantic Englishman, the letter “U”, of course. As I keep saying in this blog, I’m not really in a position to give great expert advice on data visualisation principles. Many experts have written and spoken about colour, not least Matt Francis earlier this week, who gave a reprise of this […]
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