July 2013

Should you ‘trust’ data visualisations?

There has been much discussion this past couple of days about John Burn-Murdoch’s article in the Guardian ‘Why you should never trust a visualisation’ which was itself a response to an earlier article by Pete Warden that proposed ‘Why you should never trust a data scientist’.

‘Movie Galaxies’ social graphs in movies

Jermain and Michael are co-founders of a data visualisation project called ‘Moviegalaxies’, “a place to discover the social graph in movies”. I recall I saw an early version of this project last year but it seems that the depth of movies now available has grown significantly.