Further to yesterday’s post about the Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs, the Guardian datablog has published a post today describing how their data journalism operation worked. This reveals some interesting insights into the way the investigation team went about handling, analysing and interpreting all this data in order to unearth and present the key stories. They […]
Visualising the Wikileak’s war logs using Tableau Public Read More »
The New York Times, the Guardian (UK) and Der Spiegel (Ger) have published details of a huge set of war logs from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, detailing the war in Afghanistan. There are many aspects to the journalistic challenges facing these organisations who have been selected and trusted by Wikileaks to handle the responsibility of
Wikileaks War Logs: A triumph in ‘data journalism’? Read More »
A series of charts by Jeremy Christopher depicting the history, worth and composition of the FTSE 100 share index have been doing the rounds over the past 24 hours (first seen via DataVisualization.ch). The image below is probably the most discussed and shared of this short series of 3 charts. It visualises the FTSE’s index
Radial plot of FTSE 100 Read More »
The San Francisco Chronicle presents a visualisation developed by Alan Mislove, a researcher at Northwestern University. His study looks at 300 million tweets measuring mood based on the sentiment of the language used. The results are then plotted according to location and time of day. Finally, the volume of tweets are represented by the area
Twitter visualisation of happiness Read More »
In my recent post ‘Worst graph design ever?’ I provided a very brief review of the ‘The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts’. As the title suggests, this took a critical view of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the design choices made to represent the facts covered. Clarifying my position Over the past week there has
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At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’ve come across. Here’s the latest collection from June 2010
Best of the visualisation web… June 2010 Read More »
Access to Data I have spoken recently about the status of the world of visualisation and how the juxtaposition of a number of factors is really facilitating its growth and popularity, but not yet widespread best practice. One of the key elements in this emergence has been the modern day pursuit for transparency and open
Still awaiting Tufte’s influence? Read More »
Yesterday, I came across a graphic which I believe to be possibly the worst graph I have ever seen. I’ve seen some stinkers but this has cleared out the room. Now hold your nose…
Worst graph design ever? Read More »
On the excellent DataVisualization.ch site, Benjamin has posted an interview that shares some of his thought about the various World Cup visualisations, infographics and interactives we have seen. This is for an article by Jeremy Wagstaff for the Jakarta Post and the BBC World Service. Benjamin has invited further feedback for others to join the
Visualising the World Cup: Reflections Read More »
A couple of months ago I discussed the issue of how the excitement and hype around the visualisation/information design field, whilst justified, was a bit too insular and self-congratulatory. We needed improved definitions and more clearly articulated benefits to open up and truly exploit the undoubted potential of visualisation. An important factor towards fulfilling this
Creating greater awareness of design Read More »