A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
The question might be a strange one – here’s the thinking behind it. Many of my blog posts (and indeed, my book), have been based on the premise that I am both unskilled and unconfident at producing anything creative using traditional manual means. Pens, paper, crafts, physical creations, anything like that, have filled me with […]
Win a book! I think excitedly of clever words and count numbered different letters carefully. One by one segments form, mostly in Pilish … wait for the upcoming joy of victory! A few weeks ago, I was excited to read about a new book by Sarah Hart. The book: Once Upon a Prime was to […]
That’s a big question – we’ll get to that, and the motivation for asking that particular question later! But the most important context about this post is the time of writing it – the third of January of a brand new year is when many of us look either back, or forward, or both. With […]
This is a review of the seminal book “Interaction of Color” by Josef Albers – in particular the 50th Anniversary Edition (below). Right from the start, it’s important to state that it is full of high quality colour plates, every one illustrating an important experiment, illusion or lesson around colour theory. This experience already is […]
This week I began work on a Wimbledon-themed viz. I’m sure when I started this blog I had a stubborn determination not to use the word “viz”, rather to use the full term “visualisation” wherever possible. But I have a feeling it didn’t pan out that way, and given my propensity to veer off-topic, anything […]
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 […]
Questions in Dataviz 