In advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening, the BBC web graphics team has published some analysis of the usage of the 10 most prevalent words and phrases in every address going back to 1790. The selection is specifically based on nouns, adjectives and a pro-noun, with the most popular words […]
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Through an article on Fastcodesign, I have come across BibliOdyssey, a wonderful blog dedicated to unearthing and sharing some of the finest and most unique illustrations to emerge from the 19th Century/Victorian period. Given this was the age of industrial revolution and scientific curiosity, a significant number of these illustrations are vintage examples of visualisations
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Edinburgh based developer Steven Kay has created a fascinating calendar wheel visualisation of the seasonal colours in Norway. The colours are derived from individual frames taken from a time lapse movie by Eirik Solheim of a view of his garden over a single year. One year in 2 minutes from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. Each
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In a week that has seen a great deal of debate and coverage of the GOOD chloropleth map, another attempt to innovate a map-based visualisation has landed on my desk in the shape of the FedEx ‘Our Changing World’ visualisation. The concept of this dynamic visualisation is similar to the idea of last year’s Visualisation
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Not strictly a piece of data visualisation but I can’t avoid sharing this wonderful demonstration of how visuals combined with slick interactivity can provide an extremely compelling and impactive story. They come from a pair of presentation packages on the ABC News website (part one and part two) about the recent floods in Brisbane. High-resolution
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On Twitter over the weekend, a number of visualisation grandees (Mortiz Stefaner, Andrew Vande Moere, Robert Kosara, Enrico Bertini and Noah Iliinsky) have been discussing and debating the rights and wrongs of a particularly unusual chloropleth map published in Good magazine. Zoomable view here Typically the infographics presented in Good magazine are inglorious pieces of
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Back in May 2010 the World Bank announced that it was launching a portal to open up access to its vast datasets and creating a platform for developers to make this data more accessible and facilitate greater insights.
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On Flowing Data, Nathan has just posted one of his ‘Visualize This‘ design challenges to apply an improved visualisation treatment to an existing graph. The graph in question shows the results of poll data from the Pew Research Center, suggesting that the Internet has gained on Television as the public’s primary news source in 2010.
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This is a follow-up post to my seventh article in the Visualisation Insights series which I published earlier this week. The purpose of this companion series is to optimise the learning opportunities from each insights article, reflecting on the ideas, issues and observations to emerge. Why did I choose this subject? As I explained in
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Just wrapping up my promotion of the Strata ‘Making Data Work’ Conference taking place on 1-3 February. Last week I launched a quickfire Twitter raffle for one lucky person to win a free full pass to the Strata conference. Thanks to all who entered by re-tweeting or mentioning the post. Entry closed at 12:00 UK
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