This post follows on from my recent entry to the latest Tableau IronViz feeder competition. The brief – build a viz in Tableau that “somehow touches on the theme of water”. I decided to take the tangential approach: Handel’s Water Music I’d been interested in looking at how we could visualise music for a while, […]
Tag: circles
Why do we visualise using circles?
I should clarify – if the books of Tufte and Few are your visualisation bibles then you may not enjoy this post. Rightly so, the two authors I’ve just mentioned are seen as the foremost proponents of the field of creating professional, analytical dashboard visualisations. But for those who enjoy data visualisation as data art, […]
Should we call out bad practices?
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. […]