Dataviz Climate Breakdown Beating climate change requires understanding the causes. Here’s a new graphic I’ve made that breaks down global emissions from 2016 (the latest year with global data available). Data comes from Our World In Data [https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector], remixed a little by me. Industry is the largest sector,
Worknotes Tenday Notes 9 Sep - 18 Sep Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. I like decimal numbers. That’s why I send
Completed Work Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art Ekistics is the the science of human settlements, of how we fit into our environments, and how those environments affect us. The term was coined in 1942 by Greek archictect and town planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinos_Apostolou_Doxiadis], who developed a set of 15
Worknotes Tenday Notes 29 Aug - 7 Sep Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. The opening of Ekistics - my exhibition of pen
Worknotes Tenday Notes 19 August - 29 August Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Well, that was a lovely break. I've
Sketchbook Pages Sketchbook Pages #10 I've slowed down a little on my dataviz sketching lately, but here's a new set to tide you over until the inspiration flows a little more freely again.
Completed Work Climate Solutions for Cities One of the last projects I worked on before I left Information is Beautiful [informationisbeautiful.net/] was a graphic for E.on Energy [https://t.co/pZOv4GLQ00?amp=1] about greenhouse gas emissions in cities, and how we can address them. Those graphics have now been published on the Economist&
Worknotes Tenday Notes 30 July - 8 August Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. I'm heading into an intense stretch of
From the Archive From the Archive: Why We Name the Weather The other day, Will Chase published a wonderful data visualization [https://twitter.com/W_R_Chase/status/1290299036042276864] of retired Atlantic hurricane names. > 🚨 New Project! With 2020 predicted to be a big hurricane season, now would be a great time to see my graphic feature in the August issue
Worknotes Tenday Notes 20 July - 29 July Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. Why did no-one tell me about A Pattern Language
Dataviz Data Journalism Advice For Science Writers I was interviewed for a nice piece on The Open Notebook [https://www.theopennotebook.com/2020/07/28/interrogating-data-a-science-writers-guide-to-data-journalism/] about data journalism for science writers. > Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism [https://www.theopennotebook.com/2020/07/28/interrogating-data-a-science-writers-guide-to-data-journalism/] As with all these things, a
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 actually starting coding. I've created a template folder, which contains the basic libraries I use -
Worknotes Tenday Notes 10 July - 19 July Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My last ten days have largely been spent
Completed Work Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1911 Inspired by The Historical Light Aids to Navigation [http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/data-is-plural/data-is-plural-2020-07-15-edition/17497710-reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854172/?c=f45dfd7e-31dd-46dd-880c-f646cf1bdf47] dataset, via Jeremy Singer-Vine's wonderful Data is Plural [https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural] newsletter, here's a map of the lighthouses surrounding the coasts of England and
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 bit, and I don't see any harm in exposing them to the world, so
Worknotes Tenday Notes 30 June - 9 July Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today I went to the hospital for 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" [https://www.grandpalais.fr/fr/evenement/artistes-robots] exhibition at the Grand Palais. I saw a pen plotter artwork artwork by Vera Molnár there that really struck me, titled
Worknotes Tenday Notes 20 June - 29 June Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A couple of days after I sent my
Worknotes Tenday Notes 10 June - 19 June Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I spent the whole morning today trying to
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 middle of it. One common question that comes up is whether it's worth studying for a masters degree
Worknotes Tenday Notes 31 May - 9 June Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last weekend, at a digital version of the
Worknotes Tenday Notes 21 May - 30 May Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I live in Gothenburg on the west coast
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 encoding variables in this. Want to start sketching? Here's my guide [https://blog.duncangeere.com/how-to-start-dataviz-sketching/].
Worknotes Tenday Notes 11 May - 20 May Every ten days [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tenday] I share a quick digest of what I've been working on. Here's the latest. You can find more in the series here [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/tenday-notes/]. My first Dataplotter video is done! It's
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 a fun chat, with some great questions from the audience. If you want, you can watch
