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. […]