More on Poll Data Visualisation: The Guardian Poll Projection

In Week 1 of Data Visualisation I looked at different examples of poll data visualisation. This week I discovered The Guardian’s Election 2015 Poll Projection. This is a collection of interactive visualisations attempting to predict the outcome of the May 2015 General Election based on polling data. It covers: What are the polls saying today? […]

Data Visualisation Week 3: Fifty Tones of Grey

Forget Fifty Shades of Grey, this week in Data Visualisation we have been looking at colour. Critically panned but commercially gold-plated I haven’t seen the film or read the book and am now more likely to think hmmmm interesting use of saturation in that poster than do so. I bet not once in the narrative […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Learning from the Pros: Poll Data Journalism

Visualising polling data is a particularly relevant example given we are less than 100 days away from a general election and one that is a) surrounded by uncertainty around party dynamics b) one of the first in the UK that can draw on more widely practiced and sophisticated data analysis and design techniques. The election […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Playing with Crayons to Visualise Political Data

Our final activity and first design challenge this week was to bring all of the week 1 themes and techniques together to create a visualisation for some tabulated political data from the BBC poll of polls. Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Other parties 2015 32% 34% 7% 27% 2014 31% 39% 9% 21% 2013 31% 43% […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Data Journalism

One domain where data visualisation is helping interpret data and incorporate narratives is journalism. In the UK we are familiar with the Guardian’s data journalism and data blog and the BBC is making more use of data journalism and equipping journalists with the skills and tools to interpret and depict a growing volume of data. […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Represent I CAN

One of the first challenges we faced was defining data visualisation and we do so by looking for five identifiable characteristics. Characteristics that I remember by using the mnemonic Represent I CAN. Representation Data visualisations obviously represents complex data in a graphical form but should also be more effective at representing this data than other […]

Data Visualisation Week 1: Surveying the Terrain

Our introduction to data visualisation mapped out the terrain we will be covering on the course. In one corner are design frameworks and theoretical models attempting to define the contours of this nascent discipline and situate data design within a theoretical context. These include Munzner’s Visualization Analysis and Design Framework and Fry’s Data Visualization Workflow […]

Immersive Futures Gathering Speed and Coming Closer

At #cityLIS we start Library and Information Science Foundations with the much loved History of Documents extending from rock art to digital libraries. We then spend much of our time studying the present or near history/future in order to grasp the most pressing theories and professional practice for 21st century librarians and information managers. However we are also […]

As We Have Blogged

This week out CityLIS Digital Information Technologies and Architecture module comes to an end and with it our requirement to blog on topics and labs covered in class which was the founding purpose of this blog. This post reflects on the experience of blogging as a learning activity. I have contributed to blogs before: personal […]

Crafting the Digital Humanities

This week’s lab explores some of the markup and semantic design that makes resource like the Old Bailey Online so useful for text mining by contrasting its technical approach with that of Artist’s Books Online. Artist’s Books Online Artist’s Books Online is a project to create digital repository of artist notebooks and other material directed by Johanna Drucker. The […]