Going back to basics
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
My name is Akbar, I’m carrying the wheel
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
A bountiful week
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
Newsletters are great (but you knew that already)
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
The Queen’s Johnson
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
Pictures worth ten millions of words
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
Remembering Alexander von Humboldt
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
Don’t be duped
I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again: share a pic or meme or story on social media that turns out to be FAKE NEWS! (Fortunately, my Facebook “friends” Continue Reading
Roll your own blockchain in R
Want to sharpen your understand of how blockchain works? Why not create your own in good old R? It may not be the most practical implementation of the blockchain principal, Continue Reading
You can run, but you can’t hide
Today’s terrifying Rise of the Machines story is about how us humans, cowering behind shattered walls and in concrete bunkers, will still not be safe from the Terminators, who — Continue Reading