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: 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: 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 […]