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June 19, 2021August 5, 2021Neil

What happens when you combine red and blue?

This is not a post about colour theory, though colour theory is on my mind due to my current reading matter. If you’re interested in colour theory then I hope you’re keeping abreast of my book reviews this year. They’re all here on this blog under the #bookreview tag and Josef Albers’ legendary book – […]

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January 23, 2021January 24, 2021Neil

Can you create a county level tile map for the USA?

Yes you can, I’ve done it – at least I’ve done it for the lower 48 states. The better questions to consider are “Should you …?”, or maybe “What are the pros and cons of such a map type”. Or perhaps “How on earth did you do it?” and the related “Why?” First of all, […]

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March 9, 2020Neil

What happens when you combine map visualisation types?

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 […]

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February 2, 2019February 2, 2019Neil

Do tile maps need to have regular shapes?

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 […]

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November 18, 2018November 19, 2018Neil

Which chart types are most engaging?

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 […]

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August 14, 2018Neil

When are multiple visualisations better than one?

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 […]

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December 28, 2017December 28, 2017Neil

What were my favourite visualisations of 2017?

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 […]

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November 5, 2017Neil

How do you tile the world?

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 […]

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June 4, 2017June 4, 2017Neil

Which shapes work well with tile maps?

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 […]

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