Archive for the ‘visualisation’ Category

Pollution on the underground

Posted at 9:42am on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Fascinating critique of the current Tube map…

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There seems to be an assumption made by many people that all a designer has to do is create a map using the same sorts of rules that Henry Beck did 75 years ago, and a design masterpiece will magically appear. This is not remotely true…

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Ooooh… Shiny….

Posted at 10:43pm on Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Tag galaxy.  It’s a Flickr tag explorer, in Flash.  “Meh,” I hear you say, “seen it all before.”  Go look.  Go “oooooh.”

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West Side Story

Posted at 9:25am on Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Is this the East Coast/West Coast divide we keep hearing about?

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Mapping visualisation

Posted at 12:23pm on Friday, April 13th, 2007

I am lucky to be able to (and to want to) get obsessed about things that I’m working on… The latest thing that appears to impinging on my every conscious moment is data visualisation generally and mapping in particular. Latest find? worldmapper.org, where states are distended according to statistics. Now what I want is a program that does this for arbitrary data….

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Mmmmm pie

Posted at 3:14pm on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

My life in pies

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Periodic Table of visualisation methods

Posted at 1:08pm on Monday, January 8th, 2007

This is fascinating in it’s way (bizarrely good, Doug called it). To be honest though, for a site selling itself as a repository of visualisation skills, training and learning they really could have implemented it better… Edward Tufte it is not :)

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