This weekend (I’m writing this on a Tuesday evening) there’s the deadline for entering the second feeder contest for Iron Viz. Iron Viz is one of the highlights of every Tableau Conference, where three winners of the feeder contests perform on stage in front of 12000 or so people to produce an amazing viz in […]
Tag: africa
Do we publish visualisations just for the attention?
A week or so ago I wrote three-quarters of a blog post about this, inspired by the attention that my Africa tile map viz was getting. I ran out of time and “parked it”, heading off to the Tableau Conference in London To summarise my first (unpublished) post: I compared a data visualiser publishing her […]
Which shapes work well with tile maps?
Last year I posted about tile maps and the fun I had devising one for Africa in particular. My approach up to that point was simple – just devising a square grid, basically based on graph paper and an atlas. Or at least the slightly more up to date version of rows/columns in Excel and an […]