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

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 be used in all sorts of ways to depict data. Enjoy! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention - if

Worknotes

Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 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/]. At the start of the year I implemented a

Dataviz

Introducing Dataplotter

I've been working on a new series of videos for my nascent pen plotter YouTube channel (Plottervision [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJ2kqqh78CBaLaOqd5Xn7A]), drawing and narrating data stories. It's called Dataplotter. In it, I'm doing something I've not seen done much in

Dataviz

Defining Information Design, Data Visualization and Infographics

This morning, in the Data Visualization Society's wonderful Slack community, Jane Zhang [https://janezhang.ca/] asked a question. She asked: > Has there been any good articles that are well-thought out that try to go into the nomenclature of data visualization vs. information design vs. infographic? It'

Worknotes

Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April

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/]. Remember when everyone had a blogroll? You probably do

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Perlin], after all. But why use a simulation of reality, when you can just use reality instead? Let's back up

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 [https://www.wired.co.uk/article/paolo-soleri-arcologies], and about how SimCity 2000 "made me" [https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/

Worknotes

Tenday Notes: 11 April - 20 April

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/]. Day.... five(?) in plotterland, and I'm starting

Completed Work

20 Years of Human Presence on the International Space Station

A few weeks back, I collaborated with Katarina Eriksson of Märka Design [http://markadesign.se/] to create a visualization of the inhabitants of the International Space Station over the years. It was an entry for an infographic contest that Nasa was running. We didn't win (turns out they

Behind the Scenes

Blogroll: The Blogs I Love

Remember when everyone had a blogroll? You probably do not, but I do. It was wonderful to see what the people you read were reading. So, in no particular order except a loose categorisation, here's the list of blogs I like the most at the time of writing.

Writing

A Dashboard for Planet Earth

Over on Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, I've written a 3,000 word feature on one of my favourite environmental visuals - the planetary boundary graphic. Here's a excerpt, from a section where the coordinator of the international Planetary Boundaries Research Network critiques

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #6

Back to charts for my latest set of sketchbook pages. Lexis diagrams [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexis_diagram], area charts, a xenographic [https://xeno.graphics/] concept called treemap bars that I really like for hierarchical data, and some new approaches on stacked bars. Enjoy!

Dataviz

The Logpile Chart

A couple of months back, an idea came to me in a dream. That sounds ridiculous, I know, but it's true. I woke up one morning with a clear-as-crystal picture in my head of a kind of chart that I hadn't seen before. The problem that

Plotter

A Weekend With a Plotter

It was pretty good timing that my plotter arrived just before the Easter weekend. I had a full four days to experiment with it and start to get to grips with how it works. Here are my experiences. Unboxing and Setup I ordered my Axidraw V3/A3 from Robotshop.eu

Worknotes

Tenday Notes 1 April - 10 April 2020

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/]. Since starting university in 2002 I've always

Plotter

A Wild Plotter Appears!

I'm extremely excited to say that I'm now the proud owner of a pen plotter. Specifically, the Axidraw V3/A3 [https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/890#]. I had a grand plan [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tenday-notes-22-31-march-2020/] to save up money slowly over time to buy it,

Behind the Scenes

Hello From Duncan

About a year ago I pivoted my newsletter [https://buttondown.email/duncangeere] to be about beginnings, but then it turned out I didn't have a lot of beginnings to write about and sometimes I wanted to say hi to people but didn't have a beginning so

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #5

Oops! It's been more than a month since I last published sketchbook pages. My only excuse is that I've been caught up in generative art [https://blog.duncangeere.com/tag/generative-art/] instead. As such, here are four sketchbook pages inspired by the #generativedice hashtag [https://twitter.

Worknotes

Tenday Notes 22-31 March 2020

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/]. Ruby is a programming language that I've