Category Data Visualisation
Mapping Country Links in Tableau
I’ve been looking to do this sort of visualisation with map data for a while; to show links between countries and to have the chunkiness of the lines correspond to particular amounts. I am still very, very new to Tableau but thought their tutorials may be a great place to start. The Advanced Mapping Techniques tutorial had […]
GCSE Results
There has been much chatter this week about GCSE results, which not only serves as a means by which to make me feel old (16 years ago people, 16 YEARS!) but it has also been a fabulous opportunity to dive in to the data. News outlets predictably report on the performance gap between girls & […]
Daily Mail pie chart fail, a crime against data visualisation
I have a love/hate relationship with pie charts – when they are used well, they are a brilliant way of showing proportions (x is bigger than y, which is bigger than z) and seeing where a particular slice fits in as part of the whole (mmm pie). I’m certainly not the first person to wax […]
Using a UK postcode to find Lat and Long and other useful information
So I have a list of UK postcodes and I want to find out the latitude and longitude of that postcode to plot it on to a map. There are numerous ways to do this, including: 1. Visiting Google Maps 2. Entering the postcode in to the search box 3. Right-clicking on the little point on […]
Displaying English Districts in Google Earth
The other day at work, I was asked to find out how many X* were in a particular district in England. Given we seem to have SO MANY ways that we slice & dice the country up with Ceremonial Counties, Parliamentary Constituencies, Local Government Districts (which can be boroughs, cities or Royal Boroughs) you can see […]
Week 5 & 6 – A topic of our own
For the final week of the MOOC, we have been given the task of producing an infographic of our own – this means choosing a topic, gathering the information and presenting an idea to show the information in graphic form. As my previous sketches have been for interactive infographics, I wanted to give a static […]
Week 4: Interactive graphic based on US unemployment stats
Our goal this week was to think about what kind of interactive graphic we could create based on the data used in the Guardian’s piece about unemployment in the US -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/sep/08/us-unemployment-obama-jobs-speech-state-map There is a lot of data used behind the scenes of this graphic which is great but is also slightly frustrating. For example, […]
Week 3: Sketch an interactive graphic
The goal for this week was to think about how an interactive graphic based on a particular report by Publish What You Fund, and also published in a Guardian blog, would look. The data in question relates to how transparent major donor organisations are with their own data and so each organisation has been rated using a distinct set of […]
Week 2: A critique of the “Convention Word Counts” visualisation in the NYT
Source material: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/06/us/politics/convention-word-counts.html A comparison of how often speakers at the two presidential nominating conventions used different words and phrases, based on an analysis of transcripts from the Federal News Service. Although I very much like the look of this graphic at first glance I feel it includes too much information and too many layers of abstraction […]
Week 1: Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization course
About a month ago, I signed up to a new MOOC offered by the Knight Center for Journalism. The course is run by Alberto Cairo and is exactly the sort of course I’ve been after for a while. As an aside, Higher Education institutions in the US seem to be way ahead of the game […]
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