Ideas and inspirations from Small Multiples
In its history, information visualisation has often stood somewhere between fact and narrative, between science and art. Medieval European maps, for example, were usually a mixture of geographical fact and theological order. The T-O map…
The 2019 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards Shortlist came out this week – these are some of our favourites. The Room Of Change As data visualisations go, they don’t come much more epic than this….
With impeachment efforts against Donald Trump gaining momentum and U.S. politics becoming ever more combative, we found three charts this week that describe the divisions in contemporary America. A client recently sent us the great…
This year’s Kantar Information is Beautiful longlist was released today, and we scanned through all 22 pages of entries and picked out a few favourites. With so many things to look at, it’s the ones that…
Climate change doesn’t seem to be top of the Australian government’s agenda, but students think differently. For #climatestrike day, we’ve put together a few of the most compelling visualisations that are helping make the extent…
Eyeo talks Over the past few weeks, Eyeo have been releasing their 2019 conference videos. I especially liked this one from Nadieh Bremer, which was based around the topic of connections. She starts off with…
Radar charts are much maligned in the world of data vis. Every other explanation of their workings comes with a disclaimer explaining why “you probably want to use a bar chart”. Their problems include: The…
This beautiful SVG landscape… … is a visualisation of everyone who committed suicide in the Netherlands in 2017. Created by Sonja Kuijpers of Studio Terp and published last week, the project is called ‘A view on…
There’s a lot of books out there on data visualisation – from collections of luscious graphics, to practical how-to guides and specialist texts. Here’s what’s on our bookshelf, and what we’d like to add.
Gregory J. Matthews is assistant professor of statistics at Loyola University in Chicago. Alongside data visualisations, he also makes data inspired art.
