Tag Archives: Data Visualisation
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
Data Viz Squirrel
AdeSquared has now moved, you can view the post here: http://www.adesquared.co.uk/2012/05/15/data-viz-squirrel/
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