storytelling – Questions in Dataviz

January 6, 2018January 6, 2018Neil

Is white space always your friend?

Today’s blog post focuses around a visualisation challenge set by Cole Knaflic, author of the seminal work Storytelling with Data. This year she is setting a monthly challenge, with the first challenge set out here The challenge is simple. Using any data you care to source, create (and share) an annotated line graph. As is […]

September 18, 2017September 18, 2017Neil

So, what’s the point?

Another blog post – another question. But this one might suggest that I’m losing my love of data visualisation. Losing the momentum that drives me to produce lots of work. An introspective question it might be, but don’t worry, it’s not an exasperated cry for help. Let me explain. Earlier this year, not for the first […]

May 4, 2017May 5, 2017Neil

Should data visualisations always tell a story?

I feel a bit of a fraud asking this question. It’s been asked, debated, blogged and further debated many times before. You can get opinions on the subject from people with much more experience in data visualisation than me. For example: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Alberto Cairo, Jon Schwabish, Georgia Lupi, Chad Skelton, Sophie Sparkes, Robert Kosara […]