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A collection of 45 posts

January 2024

Every month 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. Some housekeeping to start the new year. For the last few years I've been publishing these articles every ten

The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei

Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what

Streetspace Invaders

Streetspace Invaders

The Streetspace Invaders report that I worked on for Possible has just been published! We did freedom-of-information requests to all of London's local authorities to find out where they're siting their electric vehicle chargers - in the roadway, or on the pavement where they obstruct pedestrians.

ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS

UFO is a script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free scripts developed by the community. The script uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a low-frequency oscillator, with a period of about 90 minutes. It grabs data from the

Noisy Megacities

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

Signal Chain

For the last few months, I've been making music as part of a collaboration called Signal Chain with photographer Oliver Holms. The collaboration was a limited-run pop-up newsletter where we would bouce off each other's creative work. I would send a piece of music, Oliver would

Listening to the Atmosphere

Listening to the Atmosphere

I’ve built a small single-purpose Norns script [https://llllllll.co/t/ppm/54589?utm_source=duncangeere&utm_medium=email] that does one thing - emitting a tone with a pitch that represents the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The script is called “ppm”. ppmppm parts per million

Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Introducing: The Elevate Membership Program

Today is the public launch of the Elevate Membership Program [http://www.elevatedataviz.com] - a learning community for people interested in creative information design and data visualization. The doors are open, and you can sign up. Elevate Your Dataviz SkillsJoin us to access exclusive weekly articles and videos focused

Climate Migration on Five Levels

Climate Migration on Five Levels

This was an interesting challenge - The Storythings team challenged me to explain the issue of climate migration for five different audiences [https://storythings.com/work/undullah-street-five-levels/] - a child, a teenager, a college student, a postgrad student, and an expert - in response to a short story by Australian

How Covid-19 has affected global carbon dioxide emissions

How Covid-19 has affected global carbon dioxide emissions

Thanks to The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/04/reality-check-global-co2-emissions-shooting-back-to-record-levels] for the data and the full story. ‘Reality check’: Global CO2 emissions shooting back to record levelsFossil fuels are surging in post-pandemic recovery as scientists warn 1.5C emission limits will be reached in 11 yearsThe GuardianDamian

London Under the Microscope

London Under the Microscope

Earlier this year I created a sonification of London's Covid-19 data as part of Valentina D'Efilippo [http://www.valentinadefilippo.co.uk/]'s beautiful "London Under the Microscope" animation. Now, the entire video is online [https://vimeo.com/571217327] - I recommend listening loud

Putting Music on the Map

From the Archive

Putting Music on the Map

Our songs are trapped in time. They’re chronologically fixed. Even “Longplayer” — a piece of music written by Jem Finer that’s designed to last for one thousand years [http://longplayer.org/] — has an ending. Why? What’s so great about time that music has to have a duration? I’

Car Free Stories

Car Free Stories

The climate charity [https://www.wearepossible.org/] I work for, Possible, has just published a scrollytelling story I made about car-free initiatives in cities across the world. It originally began life as a report, but most people don't read reports. Policymakers read reports (or their staff do). Folks

Loud Numbers is Released!

Loud Numbers is Released!

After 18 months of work, the first episode of my data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers, has been released. You can listen here: Data sonification is the art of turning data into sound and, together with my co-host Miriam Quick, we've gone a step further turned five different data

Creating the Car Free Megacities Data Dashboard

Creating the Car Free Megacities Data Dashboard

A project that I've been working on for climate charity Possible [https://www.wearepossible.org/] has just gone live! The Car Free Megacities data dashboard [https://www.carfreemegacities.org/en/data-dashboard] shows how London, Paris and New York are freeing themselves of the dangers, pollution and emissions caused

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Quick one to note that the talk I gave at Outlier conference back in February is now public! Watch my co-conspirator Miriam and I talk about what we've learnt working on our upcoming data sonification podcast, Loud Numbers [http://www.loudnumbers.net], over the past year. Loud Numbers

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

Cistercian Plotter Postcards

I've put together a limited series of four plotter postcards for the Feb 2021 Plotter Postcard Exchange [https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1358448689673621510]. They use a numbering system developed by Cistercian monks in the 13th Century [https://mobile.twitter.com/MathematicsUCL/status/1356558846093914114], where numbers up to 10,

Telling Stories With Data & Music

Telling Stories With Data & Music

I've just published an article for Nightingale [https://medium.com/nightingale?source=post_page-----f60ac0b5f1be--------------------------------] , the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, on the new approach to sonification that we're taking with Loud Numbers. Here's an snippet: > Our goal is to create something that

Generative Postcards

Generative Postcards

Earlier this year, I sent a set of generative postcards to subscribers of my newsletter living all around the world. The postcards were all unique, their design generated by the address of the recipient and their answer to questions about their favourite kind of weather and time of day. From

The Weight of the World

The Weight of the World

The total mass of humankind is now ten times greater than the total mass of all wild terrestrial mammals - and that's before you account for domesticated animals, which account for twice as much biomass again. The data in this visualization comes from Vaclav Smil's 2011

What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches

What I Learned From 31 Days of Generative Inktober Sketches

During the month of October 2020, I created 31 pieces of generative art – one a day – from a list of prompts [https://blog.duncangeere.com/content/images/2020/10/2020promptlist.jpg] published by the folks at Inktober [https://inktober.com/]. Normally people draw their artworks in a notebook by hand,

Relaunching Duncangeere.com

Relaunching Duncangeere.com

Over the weekend, I hit "publish" on the newest version of duncangeere.com. It's live now, you should go check it out [http://www.duncangeere.com]. This is, I believe, the fifth incarnation of duncangeere.com since I registered the domain in November 2009. Here'

How Green is Your Stimulus?

How Green is Your Stimulus?

Different countries have dramatically different plans to restore their economies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Leading economists have called for a "green recovery", but only a handful of countries are taking measures which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating jobs. The net effect on the

Emissions Inequality

Emissions Inequality

The world's richest 10% (that's you, most likely) are responsible for almost half of global emissions. The poorest half of the world's population? Just 7%. Here's a new visualization I've put together illustrating this inequality: The data comes from a

Climate Breakdown

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,