Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 30 July - 8 August Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. I'm heading into an intense
From the Archive From the Archive: Why We Name the Weather The other day, Will Chase published a wonderful data visualization of retired Atlantic hurricane names. 🚨 New Project! With 2020 predicted to be a big hurricane season, now would be a
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 20 July - 29 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Why did no-one tell me
Dataviz Data Journalism Advice For Science Writers I was interviewed for a nice piece on The Open Notebook about data journalism for science writers. Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism As with all
Generative Art Streamlined Generative Art I've spent some time over the last few days streamlining my generative art process. I would like there to be as little friction as possible between having an idea and
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 10 July - 19 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. My last ten days have
Completed Work Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1911 Inspired by The Historical Light Aids to Navigation dataset, via Jeremy Singer-Vine's wonderful Data is Plural newsletter, here's a map of the lighthouses surrounding the coasts of England and Wales
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #9 I've been holding off a little on posting this one, because it contains a bunch of concepts for a project that isn't yet out. But the project has stalled a
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 30 June - 9 July Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Today I went to the
Generative Art From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres Back in May 2018, I attended OpenVisConf in Paris, and I took the opportunity to visit the "Artistes et Robots" exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 20 June - 29 June Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. A couple of days after
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 10 June - 19 June Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. I spent the whole morning
Dataviz Should you study a masters degree in data visualization? Quite often, I get asked about careers in data visualization by people who want to get into the field - either at the start of their career or in the
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 31 May - 9 June Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Last weekend, at a digital
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 May - 30 May Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. I live in Gothenburg on
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #8 A monochrome collection, with two sets of glyphs. This is probably the influence of my generative art work appearing in my data sketches, but there are plenty of opportunities for
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 May - 20 May Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. My first Dataplotter video is
Behind the Scenes How to Start Dataviz Sketching Last week, I was invited to be a panellist on the Data Visualization Society's latest "fireside chat", talking about the ways I use sketching in my visualization process. It was
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #7 Lots of length encodings today. Some lollipop charts (which I love), a few different approaches to back-to-back bars and overlapping bars, and then some rather weather-inspired graphical forms which could
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. At the start of the
Dataviz Introducing Dataplotter I've been working on a new series of videos for my nascent pen plotter YouTube channel (Plottervision), drawing and narrating data stories. It's called Dataplotter. In it, I'm doing something
Dataviz Defining Information Design, Data Visualization and Infographics This morning, in the Data Visualization Society's wonderful Slack community, Jane Zhang asked a question. She asked: Has there been any good articles that are well-thought out that try to
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April Every ten days I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here. Remember when everyone had a
Generative Art Height Noise I understand that many people fall in love with Perlin noise when they first learn about it. It did win an Oscar, after all. But why use a simulation of
Completed Work Ideal Cities I've long been fascinated by the concept of arcologies - self-sustaining cities that need little from the outside world. In 2011 I wrote about the concept for Wired, and about
