In mainland China, men outnumber women by almost 32 million. That’s a group of people larger than Australia and New Zealand combined, who will never find a wife (presuming that’s what they’re looking for). This…
Too much Yang, not enough Yin
Inspirations #17 – Giorgia Lupi and data vis as portrait
In its history, information visualisation has often stood somewhere between fact and narrative, between science and art. Medieval European maps, for example, were usually a mixture of geographical fact and theological order. The T-O map…
Inspirations #16 – Information is Beautiful shortlist 2019
The 2019 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards Shortlist came out this week – these are some of our favourites. The Room Of Change As data visualisations go, they don’t come much more epic than this….
Natural Language Classification of Development Applications Reveals a Divided Sydney
Sydney has experienced a number of housing bubbles since the early 2000s. Fuelled by a variety of factors, the booms and busts have made housing affordability hit record lows. Problems with construction quality also emerged…
Inspirations #15: Impeach this
With impeachment efforts against Donald Trump gaining momentum and U.S. politics becoming ever more combative, we found three charts this week that describe the divisions in contemporary America. A client recently sent us the great…
Inspirations #13: Climate Strike
Climate change doesn’t seem to be top of the Australian government’s agenda, but students think differently. For #climatestrike day, we’ve put together a few of the most compelling visualisations that are helping make the extent…
Inspirations #12 – Visualising Connections
Eyeo talks Over the past few weeks, Eyeo have been releasing their 2019 conference videos. I especially liked this one from Nadieh Bremer, which was based around the topic of connections. She starts off with…
Inspirations #11
‘Quantified self’ has been around for a while now. The myriad of fitness trackers that line the shelves (including the one you lost in the last load of washing) is a testament to the excitement…
Showing media bias with radar charts – the Israel Folau case
Radar charts are much maligned in the world of data vis. Every other explanation of their workings comes with a disclaimer explaining why “you probably want to use a bar chart”. Their problems include: The…
Inspirations #10 – Sonja Kuijpers’ ‘A view on despair’
This beautiful SVG landscape… … is a visualisation of everyone who committed suicide in the Netherlands in 2017. Created by Sonja Kuijpers of Studio Terp and published last week, the project is called ‘A view on…
