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A collection of 47 posts

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

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

Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data

Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data

The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS [https://ncase.me/joy/] that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called Joyful Data [https://gramener.com/joyfuldata/]. Joyful Data — make happy

The Organograms of Government

The Organograms of Government

What does your organisation's structure look like? You could draw an org chart, but how about an drawing an organogram instead? These charts were put together by Peter Cook, and show how different parts of the UK government are structured (or were in 2014, anyway). Okay, so maybe

Food Miles Are Not As Important As You Think

Food Miles Are Not As Important As You Think

Our World in Data has just published a great article [https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local] about the source of the emissions associated with different foods. It's a simple stacked bar chart. Each bar represents a food, and the coloured chunks represent where the emisisons come from - the key

Google's Dataset Search Is No Longer in Beta

Rejoice, number-hunters - Google's Dataset Search tool [https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/] is now officially out of beta. According to a blog post [https://blog.google/products/search/discovering-millions-datasets-web], the search giant has indexed almost 25 million datasets. The tool previously delivered a scattershot of vaguely-related bits of

Population of Swedish Urban Areas

Behind the Scenes

Population of Swedish Urban Areas

Or "Befolkning i Svenska Tätorter", if you like. A quick map that I was working on a while back. It's still not quite there - it needs a legend, and maybe a bit of artworking. But right now I'm struggling to get my beloved

The Missing Legacy of Marie Neurath

The Missing Legacy of Marie Neurath

Looking for a weekend read to dig your teeth into? You could do much worse than Jason Forrest's latest dive into the history of data visualization - The Missing Legacy of Marie Neurath [https://medium.com/nightingale/the-missing-legacy-of-marie-neurath-f9800733d1fc?source=friends_link&sk=2dbd9ba88a9b2b48c3b72cc70bb03a50] . Marie Neurath was the

Tools I Love #2: Flourish

Tools I Love #2: Flourish

The best free platform for making charts on the web is Flourish [https://flourish.studio/]. It has the best balance of usability, chart types, customisation and export options. Flourish has been a vital part of many of the visualizations I've made. Most complex charts are combinations of simple

Custom Isochrone Maps

Custom Isochrone Maps

Isochrone maps [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map] are one of my favourite things. They show far you can travel from a place in a given amount of time. There are lots of classic examples, but this one by Francis Galton is the first-known. It shows travel times in

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

Defending the Truth

Behind the Scenes

Defending the Truth

There's an interesting line in the latest FlowingData newsletter [https://flowingdata.com/2020/01/16/process-72-misleading-map/]. > It's difficult to plan for every single interpretation and use of your visualization once it enters the internet ethers. It's impossible to control. Nathan is writing about

Sketchbook Pages #2

Behind the Scenes

Sketchbook Pages #2

Every few days I try and fill a page in a sketchbook with visual ideas that don't have any data behind them. I pick a theme, then execute on it in a few different ways. Here are a few recent pages:

Work in Progress #2

Behind the Scenes

Work in Progress #2

More circles! Loving the look on Original Fade.

Behind the Scenes

Work in Progress #1

Some lovely circles, courtesy of Flourish.

Dataviz in 2019

I have a love/hate relationship with roundup posts. I love reading them. I hate writing them. That's why I haven't really summed up my 2019. The best summary of 2019 in dataviz that I've read comes from Data Visualization Society founder Elijah Meeks.

Alignment Chart Alignment Chart

The latest XKCD [https://xkcd.com/2251/] goes meta D&D, though I'd argue that the alignment chart itself should be lawful evil. Actually, the soil chart (lawful good, though Wikipedia's rendition is chaotic neutral at best [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_texture#/media/

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

Sketchbook Pages #1

Behind the Scenes

Sketchbook Pages #1

Every few days I try and fill a page in a sketchbook with visual ideas that don't have any data behind them. I pick a theme, then execute on it in a few different ways. I've not been doing it very long, but I've

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