Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 November - 30 November 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Big policy win in the UK last week, as the Advertising Standards Authority banned an SUV advert from Toyota on the grounds that it

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 November - 20 November 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Things have been busy lately, which is great but a little draining. The most notable bit of work I've completed recently was a Loud

Behind the Scenes

Impactful Community Leader

Today, I won the Impactful Community Leader prize at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards! I am so happy about this because I really believe in the importance of community. It's why I put so much energy into things like Elevate, Decibels, and this very blog. I was asked to

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 October - 20 October 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Earlier this year I did a bunch of data analysis and visualization work for Possible on a project looking at the effect of SUVs

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 October - 10 October 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It's been a while since I had an article published, but datajournalism.com asked me a few months back to write something for them

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 August - 30 September 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The reason why it's been about six weeks since you last heard from me is threefold. First, because I went to the UK for

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 August - 20 August 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I spent last weekend in Stockholm. My first visit to the capital in probably five years or so. It hasn’t changed too much

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 August - 10 August 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Thanks to the many of you who sent me kind messages last week about (a) my new website, and (b) my climate anxiety. It

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 July - 31 July 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've just relaunched my personal website at duncangeere.com. My goal was essentially to create an index that links to my other work across

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 July - 20 July 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest

Inspiration

Reading Layers

Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest pace of change is nature, then culture, then governance, then infrastructure, then commerce, and finally fashion - which changes fastest. It's a concept I've found very

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 June - 10 July 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It has been a little while since you heard from me, because I've been (a) on holiday and (b) at a conference. The holiday

Writing

The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what

Dataviz

How to engage audiences with climate data

Recently, the kind folks at the European Journalism Centre asked me to appear on their Conversations With Data podcast, to talk about data and climate journalism. Alongside data journalist Pei Ying Loh from Kontinentalist, and visual journalist Rodolfo Almeida, we spent an hour dissecting what organisations and the media frequently

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 May - 30 May 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've released a new script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free software developed

Dataviz

Streetspace Invaders

The Streetspace Invaders report that I worked on for Possible has just been published! We did freedom-of-information requests to all of London's local authorities to find out where they're siting their electric vehicle chargers - in the roadway, or on the pavement where they obstruct pedestrians. The responses revealed that

Sonification

ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

UFO is a script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free scripts developed by the community. The script uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a low-frequency oscillator, with a period of about 90 minutes. It grabs data from the

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2023

Hello friends, my name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a newsletter than I send every ten days or so, rounding up my recent creative input and output. Becasue you can't have the latter without the former. It's free, you're getting it because you signed up for

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. For the last five years or so, the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle has been at its lowest ebb. Now, however, it's starting to

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 April - 20 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The lovely folks at Ableton have written up an article about data sonification and climate action, featuring quite a lot of the work I’

Tenday Notes

Skåneleden Notes 1 Apr - 10 Apr 2023

Usually in the notes that I write every ten days, I round up my recent creative input and output. This time round, though, things are a bit different - over Easter I took a five-day walk through the forests of northern Skåne, so that's what this post is about. First

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 March - 30 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The most clicked link from last time was to a set of badges that allow you to mark content as not created by AI.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 March - 20 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Off the back of the excellent Designing Your System for Creativity workshop by Oliver Burkeman that I mentioned here a few months back, I've

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 March - 10 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've figured how to track how many links get clicked in these messages. So, stealing a trick from Quantum of Solazzo, I can exclusively

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 28 Feb 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Short one this, as it's a short tenday period consisting of just eight days. THANKS FEBRUARY. I've not had a tonne of free time