I could have entitled this “How do we visualise complexity?”. But that might have been confusing for two reasons. This post is a review of Visualising Complexity by Nicole Lachenmeier and Darjan Hil of Superdot Studio – a captivating book which is subtitled “Modular Information Design Handbook”. The book systematically and graphically details their bespoke […]
Tag: design driven data
Why create an unnecessary data visualisation?
This post is inspired by this recent publication (note – I started and procrastinated on the post weeks ago, so I’ll edit this to “fairly recent”) publication from Andy Kirk. Many of you will know him for running visualisingdata.com with its regular feast of industry related resources, or will have benefitted from his book or […]
What are my follow-up actions from #TC18?
The last week has been the overload of presentations, participation and socialising that is the annual Tableau Conference – ubiquitously known as #TC18. As 17000 people descended on New Orleans it represented an amazing opportunity to learn, meet new and existing friends and be inspired for the future. And, what an amazing city to host […]
What is design driven data?
A short post, with a short title, but which links to a much longer presentation. But before I link to the presentation, I want to feature perhaps my most unorthodox visualisation yet. A few weeks ago, while having breakfast in a hotel bar in Manchester, I saw the following uncredited artwork on the wall: Now […]