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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,

Ekistics: An Exhibition of Utopian Pen Plotter Art

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

Climate Solutions for Cities

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&

Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1911

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

From the Archive: Structure de Quadrilatéres

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

Introducing Dataplotter

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

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/

20 Years of Human Presence on the International Space Station

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

A Dashboard for Planet Earth

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

The Logpile Chart

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

Mountain Drive

I spent a chunky part of the last 24 hours or so learning about noise. Specifically, about Perlin noise [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise] - a way to generate random numbers that feel more organic and less, well, random. When I learn something I like to use that

Beachside 1

My generative art skills are progressing faster than they might otherwise, thanks to all the time freed up that I'd normally be spending hanging out with other humans. Every cloud and all that. Here's my latest piece, which employed a bunch of techniques I've

From the Archive: Fowl Plague

From the Archive

From the Archive: Fowl Plague

Back in 2017, I worked on a series of articles about the risk of a major pandemic for How We Get To Next. The series was called Fowl Plague [https://howwegettonext.com/fowl-plague-82f020309aaa] - not my pun, unfortunately, but the original name for avian influenza when it was discovered in

Climate Change Solutions

Climate Change Solutions

Towards the end of 2019, the team at Project Drawdown [https://www.drawdown.org/] got in touch to ask if I could help them out with data visualization for an update to their best-selling compendium of climate change solutions [https://www.drawdown.org/the-book]. A chance to develop graphics for

Our Future on Earth

Our Future on Earth

I worked on data visualization for a new FutureEarth [https://twitter.com/FutureEarth] report that connects recent news events with the latest environmental science research. Here's how it's described in the report itself: > This report provides a snapshot of our world at the start of

This is how Europe is ushering in a new golden era of train travel

This is how Europe is ushering in a new golden era of train travel

A short piece by me for The Wired World in 2020 [https://www.wired.co.uk/topic/the-wired-world-in-2020] has just made it onto the web. It was written about six months ago, so it's not totally up-to-date, but it's the first thing I've done

The 1.5C Carbon Playbook

The 1.5C Carbon Playbook

Yesterday, a project I worked on launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It's a short and sweet guide for companies who want to keep the planet's temperature below 1.5C. I helped edit the text, and worked on the information visualization. You can access

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

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

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

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: