Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2023

Hello friends. My name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a regular roundup of my recent creative input and output. You're getting it because you signed up for it, and if you want to unsubscribe then you can do so any time with the link in the

Sonification

Decibels Challenge: Objects Launched Into Space

Decibels, the sonification community that I founded, runs a monthly challenge where a dataset or other assignment is provided and participants have two weeks to create a data sonification. The latest challenge was set by Ben Cooley. He picked Our World in Data's Objects Launched into Space dataset. I processed

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 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. This is a short one, because I spent last weekend seeing friends in Gothenburg, and I'm spending this weekend in a lovely little town

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Month Notes - January 2023

Every ten days or so (a month in this case!), I share a digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the month is that we're making the Elevate Dataviz Learning Community more financially accessible for more people

Sonification

Sonification in Eurorack

The greatest joy of modular synthesizers is that you get to create a new instrument every time you sit down. You start with a bunch of modules that send and receive signals of a few basic types (triggers, gates, control voltage, audio), and you decide what goes where. You get

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2022 in Review

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. This edition rounds up the whole of 2022 instead. More in the series here. Information Design It was a good year for my information design work - I was booked up pretty

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Tenday Notes 1 Dec - 10 Dec 2022

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. As promised, a new season of Signal Chain has begun - my creative collaboration with photographer Oliver Holms. Check out the remarkable photograph he

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Tenday Notes 21 Nov - 30 Nov 2022

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'm writing to you today from a cabin in the woods where I've been spending a long-overdue break from the rest of the world.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 Nov - 20 Nov 2022

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. Scandalously, it has been 20 days since you last heard from me. I write these notes by trying to scribble down a "thing" every

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Tenday Notes 21 Oct - 31 Oct 2022

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 did a little work on the Loud Numbers Norns script this week, which brings data sonification to the Norns ecosystem. The original version

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Tenday Notes 11 Oct - 20 Oct 2022

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. This issue is a little unusual, in that it mostly consists of a lengthy travelogue of my train journey to Amsterdam to deliver a

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Tenday Notes 1 Oct - 10 Oct 2022

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. This week I'm off on a whistle-stop tour through the Netherlands and Luxembourg by train, to give a sonification workshop and a sonification keynote.

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Tenday Notes 21 Sep - 30 Sep 2022

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 been working with Conservation International for the last couple of years on the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions. Exponential Roadmap for

A Dashboard for Planet Earth

The history of the influential planetary boundaries diagram raises the question: Can a single chart show the health of the entire planet?

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Tenday Notes 11 Sep - 20 Sep 2022

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 Elevate Dataviz Learning Community that I run alongside Alli Torban, Will Chase and Gabrielle Merite is going well, and we recently launched a

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Tenday Notes 1 Sep - 10 Sep 2022

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. Over the last ten days, most of my freelance time has been spent putting the final editorial touches on Conservation International's Exponential Roadmap for

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Tenday Notes 21 Aug - 31 Aug 2022

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 been in Sweden now for ten years. On 27 August 2012, I got on a plane and flew from London to Gothenburg -

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Tenday Notes 11 Aug - 20 Aug 2022

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 largely finished off the sonification work that I was talking about last time, though there might be a handful more edits. That means

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Tenday Notes 21 July - 10 August 2022

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. Most of my work I've done over the last couple of weeks is sonification work, and it's a delight. Not just because I like

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 July - 20 July 2022

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 been on holiday for the last, well, ten days or so. So this is a lighter edition than normal. But hopefully you'll still

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 July - 10 July 2022

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. Last year I provided a sonification soundtrack to a data animation by Valentina D'Efilippo called London Under The Microscope, created for the Museum of

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Tenday Notes 21 June - 30 June 2022

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. Kind of a short newsletter today, but that's just how things pan out sometimes. Let's begin. The mini-conference I hosted this past week, Elevate

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 June - 20 June 2022

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. Today, we've got a whole lot of output to talk about. Not quite sure how that's happened, but things have a way of lining

Completed Work

Noisy Megacities

At Possible, the London-based climate charity I work with, we've just released Noisy Cities - an interactive visualization and sonification of noise pollution in London, Paris and New York - our Car-Free Megacities. NOISY CITIESOur noise maps show the levels of exposure to noise in London, Paris and New York.

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 1 June - 10 June 2022

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 last couple of weeks have been buuusyyyy so let's get straight into it today. At Possible, the solutions-focused climate charity that I work