Dataviz

A collection of 48 posts

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The Impact of Dieselgate

ClientEarth, an international environmental law charity, hired me to develop a collection of data visualizations to show the impact of the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, where EU carmakers cheated emissions testing. The goal was to demonstrate to a general audience on social media the financial and human damage caused by the illegally

Behind the Scenes

Impactful Community Leader

Today, I won the Impactful Community Leader prize at the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards! I am so happy about this because I really believe in the importance of community. It's why I put so much energy into things like Elevate, Decibels, and this very blog. I was

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How to engage audiences with climate data

Recently, the kind folks at the European Journalism Centre asked me to appear on their Conversations With Data podcast, to talk about data and climate journalism. Alongside data journalist Pei Ying Loh from Kontinentalist, and visual journalist Rodolfo Almeida, we spent an hour dissecting what organisations and the media frequently

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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

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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 on

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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.

Completed Work

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

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

2020 in Review

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]

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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

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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

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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

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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

Completed Work

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&

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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/

Completed Work

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-

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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

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

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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

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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&

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

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 the

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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

Tools I Love

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

Inspiration

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]