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Tools I Love #1: Copic Multiliner SP

Tools I Love #1: Copic Multiliner SP

Tools are important [https://blog.duncangeere.com/data-visualization-tools/]. A good tool not only removes barriers between you and what you want to do, but makes doing that thing delightful. That's why I want to share with you my current favourite pen. It's the Copic Multiliner SP

Beginning

I have a newsletter called Beginning, but today I'd like to share a cartoon by Grant Snider [https://twitter.com/grantdraws/status/1213136974787338242] with the same title. > New comic! Beginning pic.twitter.com/SfK3VK7ks9 [https://t.co/SfK3VK7ks9] — Grant Snider (@grantdraws) January 3, 2020 [https://twitter.com/

Girih Tiles

Some interpretations of Islam include a ban of depiction of animate beings, so much of religious Islamic art is geometric in nature instead. A few years back, I picked up the Islamic Design Workbook [https://amzn.to/35CuNsz], by Eric Broug, at the V&A Museum in London. It

Dataviz in 2019

I have a love/hate relationship with roundup posts. I love reading them. I hate writing them. That's why I haven't really summed up my 2019. The best summary of 2019 in dataviz that I've read comes from Data Visualization Society founder Elijah Meeks.

Alignment Chart Alignment Chart

The latest XKCD [https://xkcd.com/2251/] goes meta D&D, though I'd argue that the alignment chart itself should be lawful evil. Actually, the soil chart (lawful good, though Wikipedia's rendition is chaotic neutral at best [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_texture#/media/

How to Make a Data Story Interesting

Familiar information is boring. Readers skim it at best, and ignore it at worst. But unfamiliar information is boring too. Readers lack the context to understand it, so they skip it. To engage with a reader, you need to hit that sweet spot where a reader knows a little about

Sibling Travels

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

Sketchbook Pages #1

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

New Year Badges

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

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

Endangered Languages of Italy

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

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

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:

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,