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
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
How the far right play Googlewhack games to SEO their propaganda
Ever notice how the far right come up with some really weird terms to describe those they disagree with (ie everyone else)? There is, apparently, method behind their grammatical madness. Continue Reading
Visualising the great age of sail
European explorers of the 18th Century have a lot left to answer for, but tracing their journeys sure is purdy. This collection of visualisations (including an animated video) plots the Continue Reading
A visual hint for anti-vaxxers
If anti-vaxxers were a threat only to themselves we could sit back and let Darwin do his work. Sadly, not only do they put their children at risk of serious Continue Reading
They knew. They always knew
The Guardian has been leading this week with a series of number crunching stories around carbon emissions, which it uses to show that just 20 firms have been responsible for Continue Reading
ISS drills into SA crime data like SAPS should
When I grow up I want to work for the Institute of Security Studies… This extremely in depth report on crime in Cape Town township Khayelitsha looks at how SAPS Continue Reading