
The data visualisation know-how project
Because, in a world awash with data, it is those who can make sense of charts and graphs who get to shape that world At last my PhD research project is taking shape. In the course of many jobs, far…
Visualisation literacy: The PhD
Since about the time of my last blog post my year has been gearing up towards today, my first day as student again after 20 years… A perfect storm of factors at the beginning of this year has come to…
See how they all dance together
I saw two things on Twitter recently that got me very excited but that also might sound the death knell of my blog. Telling Information came about through my desire to rationalise all the things that contribute to the making…

Working with data
The steps I think should be followed when working with data: 1 – find out as much as you can about the data, from its original source 2 – collect and clean the data 3 – explore the data, get…

State of the industry
It’s an hour long which is why I’ve only just found time to watch Geoff McGhee’s Journalism in the Age of Data. I hasten to add it was an hour well spent in the company of experts who between them…