A blog about data visualisation and visualisations
It’s been a while since I posted – but I wanted to draw attention to one of my recent visualisations and the design thought processes behind it. I’m going through a stage of having a lot of half-finished ideas, not to mention busy times professionally, so in order to get something completed, I wanted to […]
Some context to this blog post – I’ve got a couple more blog posts on the go and viz projects that are a little bit stalled. I have every intention of getting them moving again in the near future, but on days like this when momentum is low, it’s nice to revert to some of […]
Before you skim down or look for a summary of my response to this particular dataviz question, I’m not even going to try and answer this question. I will at least discuss it though in the context of a recent project I created. First of all, here are two similar but different outputs of the […]
This post is partly inspired by a recent post from Ben Jones explaining his love for dot plots here. Like Ben, I do enjoy dot plots, and it got me thinking that it would be good to go back to basics from the point of view of a data visualisation blog: when was the last […]
As promised, part two of my review of 2017 focuses on my favourite six visualisations I created in 2017. I’m not overly comfortable about self-promotion and am having second thoughts about showing these, but I think it’s inevitable that blogs should be a combination of learning, sharing and self-promotion so as to get the maximum […]
This post isn’t a strategy debate for the local DIY superstore, but rather a question about tile maps. We’ve seen tile maps for countries, regions and continents (many of my own efforts referenced here) but what about a tile map for the whole world? Before I go too far into this, this isn’t so much […]
Last year I posted about tile maps and the fun I had devising one for Africa in particular. My approach up to that point was simple – just devising a square grid, basically based on graph paper and an atlas. Or at least the slightly more up to date version of rows/columns in Excel and an […]
At the start of the year were a lot of tweets, messages and blog posts covering predictions in data visualisation for the year ahead and people’s own resolutions for what they might do in a new and different way this year to develop their skills, experience and exposure. Personally, I ducked out of that approach, […]
First – before anyone writes in, it’s possible that there are Africa grid maps out there. But I haven’t seen any. And second, I’m not certain whether you’d call these grid maps, tile maps or both. For the purposes of this entry I’ll probably alternate between both terms. Anyhow, last week I wanted to visualise […]
