A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
This post culminates with my latest visualisation, a combination of a coxcomb and beeswarm chart. I’ll tease you, readers, and reveal it at the end of the post. But what got me thinking and posing questions was the nature of a chart with elements of two existing chart types. My output these days is much […]
“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.” […]
A couple of months ago, an old friend posted a photo of himself on Facebook on the occasion of his “Meldrew Point”. When I say old, I’m not referring to his age as such, but to how long I have known him. He is a little older than me, but our ages are certainly quite […]
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 […]
Once again, this is a post a few months in the making. It’s a topic that often comes up, and a question that can have a number of answers, depending on the type of competition, your own career and circumstances, and other such considerations. Or, like most of my questions, it could have one valid […]
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 […]