Bar & Line

Tenday Notes: 1 Sep - 10 Sep 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The biggest event of the last ten days for me has been the launch of the beta of my dataviz membership

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Aug - 31 Aug 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. First thing to say this time is that I soft-launched my previously-mentioned data visualization membership programme with Alli Torban, Will Chase

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Aug - 20 Aug 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Things are busy for me right now. I'm currently working on an extremely short-deadline sonification project for a large US company,

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Jul - 10 Aug 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I've moved house, and Helsingborg is my new home. Helsingborg is a medieval town of about 115,000 people in the

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Jul - 20 Jul 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. In a couple of weeks I'll be leaving Gothenburg, my home for the last nine years. I'm moving down to Helsingborg,

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Jul - 10 Jul 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Two work things to talk about this week. The first is the release of episode three of my data sonification podcast,

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Jun - 30 Jun 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The second episode of Loud Numbers, my data sonification podcast, has been released. You can listen to it on Spotify, or

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Jun - 20 Jun 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. For Clean Air Day on 17 June, Possible has released the Parklet Designer that I created for them. A parklet is

Completed Work

Loud Numbers is Released!

After 18 months of work, the first episode of my data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, has been released. You can listen here: Data sonification is the art of turning data into sound and, together with my co-host Miriam Quick, we've gone a step further turned five different data stories into

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Jun - 10 Jun 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Loud Numbers, my data sonification podcast, is out! It has been a long journey up to this point, and I've talked

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 May - 30 May 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The biggest news this week is that the data sonification podcast that I've been working on for about 18 months, Loud

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. This is quite a chunky edition, because I've been busy. You would think that would mean a shorter email but being

Completed Work

Creating the Car Free Megacities Data Dashboard

A project that I've been working on for climate charity Possible has just gone live! The Car Free Megacities data dashboard shows how London, Paris and New York are freeing themselves of the dangers, pollution and emissions caused by mass private car ownership. It's available in both English and French.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Apr - 30 Apr 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. This instalment is a bit link-heavy - as explained below, I've not had a lot of time for side projects lately,

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Apr - 20 Apr 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. The trailer for my upcoming data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, is now live! Have a listen on the Loud Numbers website.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 April - 10 April 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I'm extremely proud to announce that over the Easter weekend, I did not record and release an album. I was intending

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 22 March - 31 March 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. If you're reading this, you're might already be aware of the existence of the Millennium Seed Bank - a vault in

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #14

I've not been sketching so much lately, which I should fix! But here are a few bits from earlier in the year - which also contain some first thoughts for work which will hopefully see the light of day soon! Want more sketchbook pages? Here's more sketchbook pages!

Loud Numbers

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Quick one to note that the talk I gave at Outlier conference back in February is now public! Watch my co-conspirator Miriam and I talk about what we've learnt working on our upcoming data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, over the past year. Loud Numbers also has a release date, so

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 12 March - 21 March

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. I like to rearrange things. Not meetings, or plans. Sometimes deckchairs. But I find putting physical things into a new layout

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 2 March - 11 March 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. One of the big surprises of my 2020 roundup posts was the popularity of the one on building community. Since I

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes: 10 Feb - 1 Mar 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. To kick us off I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in

Writing

The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt

I want to talk a little bit about the environmental cost of blockchain technologies - and in particular the recent gold rush around crypto-art and NFTs. I've seen a lot of crazed excitement about this around my networks, and I think it's important to have all the information before you

Plotter

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

I've put together a limited series of four plotter postcards for the Feb 2021 Plotter Postcard Exchange. They use a numbering system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century, where numbers up to 10,000 can be encoded in a single character. The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes: 10 Feb - 19 Feb 2021

Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Want them in your inbox? Sign up. Let's start with a big question. Why am I writing this newsletter? (Note: this is the blog version of the notes,