Tag Archives: data visualisation

The power of dedicated time… and spreadsheets

By Julie Starr | Published: February 14, 2011
One of the great things about attending a workshop is that you give yourself time to focus on one thing for a while. And in the case of a Webstock workshop, there’s also the comfort that comes with realising that other people have spreadsheets of ideas kicking around on their laptops. Not little scraps of [...]
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Hans Rosling’s mortality rates in 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes (video)

By Julie Starr | Published: December 9, 2010
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Watch this: Journalism in the Age of Data

By Julie Starr | Published: October 31, 2010
Pleased I made time this weekend to watch this documentary on data journalism by Geoff McGhee. I came across it on Flowing Data (thanks guys:) who name-check some of the people interviewed: Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viègas kick things off with some of the work they did with IBM. Then it’s Ben Fry from Fathom, then Jeffrey Heer [...]
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Link wrap: TBD, maps, saying no to Knight

By Julie Starr | Published: August 17, 2010
My browser is close to exploding under the weight of so many open tabs so I’m in tab-clearing mode this morning. Here’s a link wrap of things that lodged in my brain for one reason or another recently. TBD Mathew Ingram does a nice round-up on two US local-news-and-blog-network initiatives, TBD and GrowthSpur. TBD.com, which [...]
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Maps show how transport shrinks the world

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2009
New Scientist has published some beautiful maps exploring which are the remotest places on earth – given how much international transport we have available to us. The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. [...]
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