Sketching Sponsor Partners Running UK Clinical Trials
Using data from the clinicaltrials.gov registry (search for UK clinical trials), I grabbed all records relating to trials that have at least in part run in the UK as an XML file download, then mapped...
View ArticleSketching Substantial Council Spending Flows to Serco Using OpenlyLocal...
An article in today’s Guardian (Serco investigated over claims of ‘unsafe’ out-of-hours GP service) about services provided by Serco to various NHS Trusts got me thinking about how much local councils...
View ArticleInterest Differencing: Folk Commonly Followed by Tweeting MPs of Different...
Earlier this year I doodled a recipe for comparing the folk commonly followed by users of a couple of BBC programme hashtags (Social Media Interest Maps of Newsnight and BBCQT Twitterers). Prompted in...
View ArticlePragmatic Visualisation – GDS Transaction Data as a Treemap
A week or two ago, the Government Data Service started publishing a summary document containing website transaction stats from across central government departments (GDS: Data Driven Delivery). The...
View ArticleLondon Olympics 2012 Medal Tables At A Glance?
Looking at the various medal standings for medals awarded during any Olympics games is all very well, but it doesn’t really show where each country won its medals or whether particular sports are...
View ArticleCreating Olympic Medal Treemap Visualisations Using OTS R Libraries
In London Olympics 2012 Medal Tables At A Glance? I posted some treemap visualisations of the Olympics medal tables generated using a Google Visualisation Chart treemap component. I thought it might be...
View ArticleOlympics Swimming Lap Charts from the New York Times
Part of the promise of sports data journalism is the ability to use data from an event to enrich the reporting of that event. One of the widely used graphical devices used in motor racing is the lap...
View Article“Visualising” High Frequency Trading With Sound (Sonification)
Over the summer, an episode of one of my favourite audio/radio programmes, the OU co-produced Radio 4 programme More or Less included a package on high frequency trading. To illustrate how fast high...
View Articleits the Gramma an punctuashun wot its’ about, Rgiht?
This is another of those confluence style posts, where a handful of things I’ve read in quick succession seem to phase lock in my mind: (brought to mind in part via @downes a week or so ago: How to...
View ArticleThe Chart Equivalent of Comic Sans..?
Whilst looking at the apparently conflicting results from a couple of recent polls by YouGov on press regulation (reviewed in a piece by me over on OpenLearn: Two can play at that game: When polls...
View ArticleNarrative Charts Tell the Tale…
A couple of days ago, I got a message from @fantasticlfe asking if I’d done any tinkerings around what turned out to be “narrative charts”. I kept misapprehending what he was after (something to do...
View ArticleA Couple of Interesting Interactive Data Storytelling Devices
A couple of interesting devices for trying to engage folk in a data mediated story. First up, a chart that is reminiscent in feel to Hans Rosling’s ignorance test, in which (if you aren’t familiar with...
View ArticleData Structure + Narrative Chart = StoryLine?
A couple of years ago, prompted by a query from Michael Smethurst/@fantasticlife (then of the BBC, now of UK Parliament), I put together a post that described several ways for visually exploring the...
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