A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
OK, so the title to this is a deliberate reference to an earlier post: Why do we visualise using circles? That particular post celebrated Manuel Lima’s amazing book and went over many of the opinions that people have expressed about circles in data visualisation – love them or hate them. But what about triangles? I don’t […]
This post refers to a recent visualisation of mine which aimed to look at poverty rates across the 47 prefectures (regions) of Japan. Because each individual prefecture was reported with average poverty rates, and therefore each had the same amount of importance placed on it regardless of size or population (and because I love tile […]
What is data sonification? Data sonfication is to auditory perception as data visualisation is to visual perception. In other words, sonification allows you to hear data in much the same way as visualisation allows you to see data. So, representing data as sound/music is not the same as representing musical data visually (which I’ve done […]
This post is a brief journey through the design process for my recent visualisation showing the first 3500+ members of the Data Visualisation Society By way of a challenge, we were provided with anonymised data – consisting of just sign-up dates/times, self-reported scores averaged over three areas (summarised using the terms “data”, “visualisation” and “society”, and […]
Some context to this blog post – I’ve got a couple more blog posts on the go and viz projects that are a little bit stalled. I have every intention of getting them moving again in the near future, but on days like this when momentum is low, it’s nice to revert to some of […]
Here are some of my favourite visualisations of 2018. Many, if not all of them have influenced me in some way. I haven’t been keeping track through the year, so I have a horrible feeling I’ll publish this post and then realise something I should’ve included, but that would mean including it at the expense […]
I came across another different use of the term Data Portraits after I completed my online badges and blog posts for the Data Portraits and presented on them last month. On searching for the term I came across the work of W.E.B. Du Bois at the turn of the century. Du Bois composed a series […]
Before you skim down or look for a summary of my response to this particular dataviz question, I’m not even going to try and answer this question. I will at least discuss it though in the context of a recent project I created. First of all, here are two similar but different outputs of the […]
Yesterday I was invited to talk at the Northwest Tableau User Group in Manchester. I was delighted to accept, not least to support the co-organisers: Ella Worsdale, Lorna Eden, and Colin Wojtowicz – a freelance data visualisation and analyst trading as Datawoj Ltd. It quickly occurred to me that I could re-present my recent Tableau Conference talk […]
