Design

In advance of tomorrow’s announcement from the Government about the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review, today’s online edition of the Guardian has a great interactive feature allowing readers to simulate the role of Chancellor and apply cuts to the variety of department budgets. The interface is designed as a treemap with sections sized in […]

Reader Mark Lukas has been in touch to share details of an interesting Augmented Reality (AR) project he has been working on. For those of you unaware of AR is a rapidly emerging technological concept involving the overlay of an interactive visual display, such as data, graphics, video or animation, onto a physical object or

“You must come round and look at my holiday photos” is a phrase that sends shivers down most spines, mine included. Nevertheless, I wanted to share some photos of my experiences as a tourist in New York last week, particularly from an information design perspective. Here is a collection of the various snaps I took

On 2 November, the US holds midterm elections to Congress. To allow UK readers (in particular) to learn more about what these midterms involve and why they are important, the Guardian has produced a really useful interactive feature. There are a number of screens that lead the reader through the background information, with the key

Over the several years I have been immersed in data visualisation there have been many occasions when I’ve come across a graphic that is largely well intended but basically ineffective, yet it actually proves to be quite a challenge to help justify (based on evidence) and articulate the specific reasons for its shortcomings to others.

Spotted on Wired, the developers responsible for Last.fm’s ‘VIP playground’ have announced the launch of a visualisation service that plots subscribers’ listening habits over a certain time period onto a 24 hour clock graphic. This follows other last.fm graphic developments such as the listening trends streamgraph (read more about streamgraphs here) and music universe. I

The OFCOM Communications Market Report 2010 has been published today. For those who don’t know about OFCOM it is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries and this is arguably their most important and influential annual report. At 379 pages it represents a significant volume of work and, not surprisingly, contains a

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

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