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June 24, 2020June 24, 2020Neil

How do you create 31 visualisations in a month?

Some might say, the question should be “Why …” – and I don’t have an answer to that, other than to describe my thought processes from my last post, on the first day of May, where I set myself this challenge. A visualisation a day, all on the theme of one album. Did I complete […]

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May 1, 2020May 1, 2020Neil

How do you visualise an album?

This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Not to be confused with my previous project, with #AlbumCoversAsDataViz, this is more about how you can visualise the actual contents of an album – its words, its sounds and its structure. I was reminded more recently about this by meeting Stefanie Posavec. When we […]

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September 14, 2018Neil

How do we visualise music?

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, […]

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January 5, 2017April 7, 2017Neil

Exploratory or Explanatory?

Today’s question is all about how much explanation should be included with a visualisation. In terms of your overall look, should you clarify, or simplify? It’s a topic that often comes up in visualisations, and I think it’s one I don’t always get right. Earlier this week I revisited an idea I had following the […]

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