Yearly Archives: 2010

Debtris

Our first animation. Enjoy! $US version – see the video on youtube £UK version – see the video on youtube Data: http://bit.ly/debtris We’ve been honing our animation skills. Expect more films, motion infographics and ‘info-mations’ in 2011. Follow us on Youtube for more. If you’re an motion graphics type person looking to collaborate or work Read On...

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La Información es Bella

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I wanted to say a grateful, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has bought my book this year. It’s been doing really well. Thank you! It’s broken the Top 100 books on Amazon.co.uk. While the Visual Miscellaneum has cracked the top 2,000 on Amazon.com. Thank you! For something that took nearly three years of my Read On...

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Visualizing Bloodtests

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We were happy to win a design competition in Wired US this month. It was around re-envisioning medical data. Specifically, blood test results. Which suck, design-wise. They still look like secret missives from the CIA circa 1965. Yet their contents are vitally – perhaps mortally – important. Our challenge was to approach a cholesterol level Read On...

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High Society

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Unique times require unique thinking, right? We’re under the cosh here in the UK with unprecendented public cuts and austerity measures. Is there a potential revenue stream we’re missing? One right under our noses? One that could solve the university tuition fees crisis? And leave around £75M left for a very, very good party. My Read On...

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Google NGram

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With Google’s new tool Ngram Viewer, you can visualise the rise and fall of concepts across 5 million books and 500 years! FUN! I’ve boshed out a few quick experiments. Got any more? See the rest of the article…

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Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom?

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Just a think-piece really. (I was recently visiting the office of the awesome design website Swiss Miss. Over snacks, they asked me to christen their “lunch guest wall” with a scribble. Caught in the headlights and feeling the pressure to be clever and impressive, my mind, of course, went blank. Spotless white. All I had Read On...

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Vitamin D

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See the image on its own UPDATED! Data and research: http://bit.ly/42degreesN Ever since doing Snake Oil visualization, I’ve become a little obsessed with optimising my diet. Hey – what else is there to do on a winter evening? Strange thing. Vitamin D keeps popping up in all kinds of research. Evidence seems to be growing Read On...

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The Science Behind Wikipedia’s Jimmy Appeal

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Seen the latest banner ads on Wikipedia appealing for donations? Like me, perhaps you wondered how such dating site-style ad with a gory close-up could possibly work as an appeal for funds? Data says: very well. See fascinating data on the effectiveness of the ad from around the world. [via O'Reilly Radar] New: now twinned Read On...

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Peak Break-Up Times On Facebook

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An image myself and Lee Bryon created in 2008 for The Visual Miscellaneum using facebook status updates (Somebody redrew this graph and now it’s going round like wildfire but without credits – gnash! So I thought I’d officially put it up) Christmas too cruel. Hahah! Still makes me chuckle. See the rest of the article…

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The Varieties Of Intimate Relationship

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See the image on its own Something Spock might’ve knocked up in his first year at the Vulcan Science Academy. That’s what I think when I look at this graphic. Now. Two years after myself and Laura Sullivan created it for my infographic book Information Is Beautiful (US | UK). It’s been updated and regraphicked. Read On...

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