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
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
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
Data are
“Data is” or “data are”? Well, the data are in. David Evans looks at forty years of scholarly articles and finds out that scholars are split on the issue. (Or Continue Reading
Syntactic ML sugar with TensorFlow 2.0
The all-singing, all-dancing machine learning library, TensorFlow, just hit version 2, with a host of changes: tight integration of Keras; eager execution by default; and “Pythonic function execution”, whatever that Continue Reading
The fucked up number of the week: 45 million
An argument can be made that crime numbers and statistics can make victims faceless and make the story less impactful. In this case, the victims — those of child pornography Continue Reading
See how Apartheid wiped communities off the map
Glenn Moncrieff’s act of split-viewing today’s Google Maps images of Cape Town with aerial photography from before Apartheid’s resettlement of “non-whites” creates a powerful art. Reminiscent of Johnny Miller’s work, it’s Continue Reading
The last Thomas Cook flight
The final flights by collapsing travel agency Thomas Cook are elegantly visualised by Bloomberg, including the very last one from Orlando to Manchester. But the visualisation doesn’t tell the story of Continue Reading
Nerd out on SSL certs
On the scale of one to nerd, examining a data set of 350 million SSL certificates blows right off the chart. And yet even in this seemingly dry dataset you’ll Continue Reading