Completed Work Sibling Travels A few days ago, I shared a hand-drawn data visualization I made for my stepfather for Christmas. I also made a similar visualization for my sister, showing the countries we've visited together. This one was more challenging, as I didn't have as much data or an
Behind the Scenes Sketchbook Pages #1 Every few days I try and fill a page in a sketchbook with visual ideas that don't have any data behind them. I pick a theme, then execute on it in a few different ways. I've not been doing it very long, but I've
Dataviz New Year Badges For my New Year's Eve party this year, I made a small collection of hand-drawn data portraits of the attendees. The goal was to give the attendees - some of which didn't previously know each other - a conversation starter. I collected data using a Google
Inspiration Peak Map Ridgeline plots (formerly known as joyplots - read the explanation for the name change [https://serialmentor.com/blog/2017/9/15/goodbye-joyplots]) are a lovely way of displaying topography. Peak Map [https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map] is a website created by Andrei Kashcha that lets you go to anywhere on
Completed Work Endangered Languages of Italy As a Christmas present for my stepfather, who is learning Italian, I drew a data visualisation showing the endagered languages spoken in Italy. The visual style is heavily inspired by Giorgia Lupi [http://giorgialupi.com/], of Dear Data [http://www.dear-data.com/] fame. The opportunity for the Italian connection was
Site Admin Bar & Line? My workblog is called Bar & Line. I wanted to name it for three reasons. 1. I like the name "Bar & Line" a lot. It's classy, and a little funny. I wanted to lay my claim to it, in case I want to use it
Writing Choosing the Right Tools for Data Visualization A few weeks back, I led a discussion in the Data Visualization Society [datavisualizationsociety.com/]'s Slack community about tools for data visualization. The discussion covered favourite tools, how people approach learning a new tool, and why data sketching could change your life. Here's a summary [https:
Site Admin The First Post Owning your online presence is important. A huge Twitter or Facebook following is great, but if either platform goes away then so does your audience. That's why I'm starting a blog. This is at least the fourth blog that I've started. In the past,
