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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

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

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 by mass

I'm joining Possible

Behind the Scenes

I'm joining Possible

This week I had my first day at Possible [https://www.wearepossible.org/], a London-based climate charity. My official job title is "data visualization designer", which will involve creating data visualizations, infographics and maps - primarily on the Car-Free Cities campaign. I'll be working remotely from my home in Gothenburg,

2020 in Review: Information Design

2020 in Review: Information Design

A year ago I wrote [https://blog.duncangeere.com/dataviz-in-2019/] that "I have a love/hate relationship with roundup posts. I love reading them. I hate writing them." Well, it turns out that writing a blog [https://blog.duncangeere.com/] and newsletter [http://buttondown.email/duncangeere] all year makes it

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 paper "Harvesting the Biosphere:

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 environment will

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 report called The Carbon Inequality Era [https://www.sei.org/

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,

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's

Data Journalism Advice For Science Writers

Data Journalism Advice For Science Writers

I was interviewed for a nice piece on The Open Notebook [https://www.theopennotebook.com/2020/07/28/interrogating-data-a-science-writers-guide-to-data-journalism/] about data journalism for science writers. > Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism [https://www.theopennotebook.com/2020/07/28/interrogating-data-a-science-writers-guide-to-data-journalism/] As with all these things, a long

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 Wales in 1911. Light

Should you study a masters degree in data visualization?

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 in the

How to Start Dataviz Sketching

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 the full thing here:

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 the plotter community - data visualization using a

Defining Information Design, Data Visualization and Infographics

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's something that I've thought

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 were looking

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 chart. She doesn't

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 it turns out my

Tools I Love #4: Google Sheets

Tools I Love #4: Google Sheets

I don't know if I've ever made a visualization without Google Sheets [sheets.google.com]. Like the sturdy vessel of a seasoned explorer, it's fast, powerful, and a key part of almost every data journey I undertake. It's there with me when I get hold of raw data and need

The World As a Subway Map

The World As a Subway Map

The New York Times has published a good* scrollytelling piece about Covid-19, which makes use of particle flows to show how the virus spread from a single market in Wuhan to almost every country in the world [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html]. It makes

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

How Big?

Hans Hack has developed a neat little tool [https://hanshack.com/geotools/howbig/] that lets you quickly draw a circle or square with a given area on a map, and download it as a GeoJSON. It's called "How Big". It's a handy way to show your readers what a given

Sketchbook Pages #3

Sketchbook Pages

Sketchbook Pages #3

More pages from my sketchbook. I clearly don't know how to draw voronoi diagrams, but you get the idea. The line charts are my favourite!

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 2020, helping to make sense