To map or not to map
A bugbear of mine is people who jump at using a map as a solution for a set of data that happens to include place names. “But what’s the story?” I ask. Matt Ericson explains so eloquently, with examples, why…
And one more great moment…
Further to Eye magazine’s Winter 2010 issue featuring a series of ‘great moments in information design’ I’ve contributed this map as a piece of work I’ve long admired. Read why on Eye’s blog. (Other contenders on my short list were…
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…
Really useful maps
Hurray, they’ve arrived in West London! It’s a simple concept well executed and deserves to be taken up across the city: site-specific maps, oriented to their situation which show how many places are within either a 5 or 15 minute…
Find your global opposite
With half of my family in New Zealand it wasn’t uncommon for us, as children, to want to dig a deep hole down through the garden until we got to New Zealand. Turns out I’d have been better doing that…