Unique times require unique thinking, right? We’re under the cosh here in the UK with unprecendented public cuts and austerity measures. Is there a potential revenue stream we’re missing? One right under our noses? One that could solve the university tuition fees crisis? And leave around £75M left for a very, very good party…
Read moreWith Google’s new tool Ngram Viewer, you can visualise the rise and fall of concepts across 5 million books and 500 years!
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Read moreEver since doing Snake Oil visualization, I’ve become a little obsessed with optimising my diet. Hey – what else is there to do on a winter evening? Strange thing. Vitamin D keeps popping up in all kinds of research. Evidence seems to be growing for its extensive potential role in health, cancer prevention and even mental health and mood.
Read moreSeen the latest banner ads on Wikipedia appealing for donations?
Read moreAn image myself and Lee Byron created in 2008 for The Visual Miscellaneum using Facebook status updates. (The follow-up book Knowledge is Beautiful is out now.)
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Read moreBrilliant infographic from Kai Krause (perhaps the Kai Krause?) to combat rampant ‘immappancy’
Read moreDataflow 2 is a collection of the latest data visualizations and information graphics sprouting from the fledgling infoviz scene. Everything’s here: computational art, newspaper infographics, academic spidergrams. Although there is a strange absence of work from Information Is Beautiful. Grump!
Read moreAccusations today over the timings of terror alerts and elections.
Read moreThe UK has over 1000 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-government organisations). Many will be nixed in the next wave of government austerity measures. Discover the biggest and the ones for whom the bell tolls..
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Read moreWe’ve been working on some under-the-hood updates on the site and content. Here they are:
Read moreThe Tax Gap is the difference between tax collected and the potential tax out there.
Read moreHere’s a recent talk I gave at TED Global Oxford about my passion for data visualization and information design.Here’s the page on TED.com if the video isn’t working for you. It’s also on YouTube. Enjoy!
Read moreEvery single Dr Who journey ever. Crowdsourced ultra-geek dataset for The Guardian.
Read moreThree firms own 89% of your sugar water.
Read moreArticles of War
Read moreThis week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and civic-minded dataheads. We did a hack day with some of India’s leading developers and visualizers.
Read moreI was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.
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Read moreDesign duo Tyler Lang and Elsa Chaves are Always With Honor, an Portland-based design team with a specialty in beautifully simple information displays and iconography.
Read more“Live-vizzing” a graphic on the UK government’s emergency budget for The Guardian and Open Knowledge Foundation.
Read moreSo much great work out there at the moment, I wanted to share it with y’all.
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