Tips for Creating Actionable Charts – a response
Charts, like words, are mediums of communication. And just as words can be strung into sentences and sentences into paragraphs to varying degrees of eloquence, so too can charts vary in their...
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The silver lining of word clouds
In what must be Flickr’s proudest moment in its rip-roaring adventures in web 2.0, it walked away from 2006′s Webby Awards with three glorious pats on the back, one from the official committee and two...
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Game of Thrones à la data
With season 2 at an end and a long year to wait until my next fix of Game of Thrones, I had to find a way to fill the terrible void, to stop the heartache, to find closure. And so, crying into my...
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Booker Prize 2012 à la data
Another year another bunch of Booker books I haven’t read. But, as Shakespeare wrote, cry havoc and let slip the dogs of data visualisation. The Guardian Data store published sales data earlier this...
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How to incite fear and hatred with data
A car and a bus collide in a head-on crash. Reporters rush to the scene and produce the following two accounts: A 39-year-old man has died after a car and a bus driving in opposite directions crashed...
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Sports Personality of the Year 2012 à la data
It’s been a golden year for British sport and never has it felt so unfair that whoever got the gong for Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) last Sunday, so many other worthy heroes would have to...
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Thoughts on The Story conference and how storytelling is changing in the...
Stories are all around us in our day to day and are fundamental to the way we experience life and see the world. In its third year now, London’s The Story conference brings together people who craft...
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