Make data sing
According to Hans Rosling statistics is about making data sing. In my case he was preaching to the converted. But if you want an entertaining and good argument about why statistics are useful then watch The Joy of Stats. (In…
Humanising data II
Released earlier this week, the New York Times’ visualisation of the whole of the USA’s local census data city by city, block by block, is impressive. As ever they’re leading the field with a slick, clear, fast and easy to…
Humanising data
Databases are dry. While they will reveal their secrets to statisticians it’s a challenge to make them digestible, and useful, to the world at large. More often than not the fact that the database exists seems to be driver enough…
Where’s this train going?
Foreign tube/metro/subway systems can be confusing. This is a really low-tech but highly-useful solution for indicating to passengers which direction the train is travelling in. The lights come on as you pass through stations. Most recently I was appreciating it…