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I wanted to share some general observations following the FlowingData challenge from last Friday which has provoked a large response. Readers were invited to comment on and offer makeover designs for the above 3D pyramid diagram

The BBC has launched its ‘Superpower’ season, broadcasting a series of interesting programmes exploring the power of the internet. The image below is taken from the season’s dedicated mini-site. This is the primary interface for navigating around the site’s content. Hovering over each component causes it to animate creating an innovative and engaging experience. The

Nathan from FlowingData has published a post today which sets out a challenge to rework the graphic below, produced by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to present a comparison between Federal subsidies for food production and recommended nutritional servings. The intention of this graph is to show just how out of sync the

It is well known how the power of a story can add so much effect to the exchange of information. It makes the communication interesting, accessible, simpler to understand and also has more chance of being remembered. It is not always a straightforward task to actually find a story within an a given problem context but, nevertheless, it is important to always at least try and approach such communications with an eye on logical sequence and narrative.

How Much Information? is a report published by academics from the Global Information Industry Center, University of California, San Diego. Released in December 2009 it presents the results and analysis of a project aimed at creating a census of the world’s data and information consumption during 2008. It asks questions such as how much did people

Most days when I go out for lunch I take a shortcut through the hospital building adjoining my office. I’m not talking about obscure rat runs through wards or surgery sessions but there is a route down a series of public corridors. On one of these corridors, in one of the more remote, dark locations in

The images below show screenshots from the O2 ‘My Account’ app for the iPhone. In principle this is a very useful application to keep a close eye on your track on your available free minutes and texts and details of additional charges outside of your contract. If you assess, however, the number of items of

This is a video of a TV news report analysing the tried and tested methods of structuring the news, picking apart the typical elements and production techniques of how reports are constructed.

For those people reading who frequent some of the other sites covering similar data visualisation topics you might be expecting me to include in my first post one of two things…