Design

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 […]

Picked up via an article on a BBC tech blog, below is a video from the Mashable’s YouTube channel showing the Apple App Store visualisation ‘hyperwall’ they’ve on show at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. This visualisation shows the live progress of the 50,000 most popular app downloads from the Apple App Store. As each

The BBC has published a set of graphics to support their analysis of the (re-) increasing financial crisis across the Eurozone. The first graphic (debt) presents both the national debt and deficit as a % of GDP. Wisely the values are presented on a colour-coded scale using only a single colour. This makes it easier for

I’ve been sent a link to an interesting new service offered by 3M (who despite apparently having a portfolio of 55,000 products I still think of as the Post-it Note company). It is called the ‘Visual Attention Service’ and is pitched around the tag line “You’ve got seconds to engage a viewer. Be sure they count”: As

Via The Big Picture website I’ve come across a New York Times graphic sequence explaining the national debt levels across European states. The sequence presents seven different graphics that build a story of the debt crisis across the continent and I want to comment on a couple of aspects of these displays which I feel

The Guardian has put together a photo gallery showing shots of some of the election night TV coverage through the years right up to some of the technology likely to be on show tonight. The coverage choice for UK viewers this evening and throughout most of tomorrow will be between BBC1, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky. Sky

With only a few hours to go before the UK general election polls open, the level of interest and media exposure is reaching fever pitch. It is quite simply the closest, most interesting and important election many of us have ever been experienced. As I have posted throughout the campaigning period, the news and media sites

Another interesting challenge presented by Nathan at FlowingData to improve the design and clarity of message of the graph presented below which displays the results of a study investigating obesity rates at different ages across people who were born in different cohorts of years.

Bit of a tangent from normal posts but I was interested in this promotional campaign by IKEA for their kitchen design service. They have rendered three kitchen layouts and designs to represent the three main political party leaders. Aside from the comedy names and regardless of whether they necessarily accurately represent the leaders traits, I

With the UK election process very much reaching its peak in terms of anticipation, discussion, debate and spin I thought I’d follow up my earlier post, which introduced some of the quantitative analysis and interactive scenario tools, to present some examples of qualitative analysis. This area of visualisation is rapidly growing in prominence as media