All the data you can eat
I first came across the story of Alphonse Chapanis in Matthew Syned’s excellent Black Box Thinking. Quick precis: Chapanis revolutionised industrial design while investigating the question of why American bomber pilots Continue Reading
Yeah, we all use D3 by going to the gallery, finding the graph closest to what we want, and C&P’ing it. But what if what you want hasn’t been done before? Continue Reading
If an organisation is going to call itself the Data Visualisation Society, then it had better have a really interesting way of reporting its own numbers, hadn’t it? And the Continue Reading
If you thought reading a text only newsletter about data-driven storytelling and other interesting stuff was retro, you haven’t seen Market Cafe Mag. It’s a print-only compendium of dataviz examples Continue Reading
It’s comics! It’s data viz! It’s very sad! But it’s so human! Gramener Story Lab’s dive into the world of Afghan refugees and why they flee their country is just Continue Reading
One of the surprising things (to me) about Naked Data is that there’s never any shortage of material to write about on a weekly basis. Sure, sometimes we have been Continue Reading
We’re quite partial to the occasional email newsletter at Naked Data, and for obvious reasons think you should encourage all your friends to subscribe. Nieman reports on how the medium is helping to Continue Reading
This brilliant piece of interactive reporting examines Boris Johnson’s Queen’s Speech, comparing it to 100 years of Prime Ministers’ Queens Speeches. You can literally compare every word and phrase for Continue Reading
It sounds like the title for an unfinished Culture novel, The Visual Telling of Stories is an enormous library of narrative images that’s a delight to dip into. It’s a bit daunting, though, which Continue Reading
We may all think that Cairo, Tufte, Chalabi, McCandless, Rosling, Lupi and their ilk are the pioneers of data visualisation, but the real data viz groundbreakers were creating the concept Continue Reading
