How much does society actually mix?
Data visualisations of how much society integrate with people from other religious and ethnic backgrounds, by age and location.
Data Visualizations
How to do a good visualisation and why it’s important
Visualisations are an important tool when presenting data, and can be used to show patterns, correlations and the ‘big picture’. Ben Fry has said that visualisations ‘answer questions in a meaningful way that makes...
Visualisation showing patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
Here I have created a visualisation showing patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 over the last six years. I took statistics from the mental health pages of the NHS website and downloaded...
Metropolitan Police expenditure on cars is on the rise
An FoI request to the Metropolitan Police has revealed that their expenditure on brand new, unmarked cars is on the rise. Read this original data story here.
Treemap for Comparisons showing Hospital Waiting Times
Visualising data is important because it makes complicated information easy to process and understand. Here I took some data from the Office for National Statistics website, www.ons.gov.uk. I chose to look at Hospital waiting...
Correlation or Causation?
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK – By Vali Chandrasekaran Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question Correlation may not imply causation, but it sure can...
Tool of the week for journalists – Playground, to monitor social media analytics
Tool of the week: Playground, by PeopleBrowsr. This post was first published on Journalism.co.uk What is it? A social analytics platform which contains over 1,000 days of tweets (all 70 billion of them), Facebook activity and blog...
Why journalists should hang out with hackers
JOURNOMEL.COM: By Mel C Editor’s note: I thought this blog post made a really good point: journalists and hackers should hang out together more. So I decided to share it with you. You can...
75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP
Editor’s note: Back in 2009, Tripwire magazine published this comprehensive article about data visualisation tools. Although technology has come a long way since then, most of their tips are still relevant so we thought...
15 Well Designed Twitter Infographics
FLASHUSER Infographics are probably the best way to show different statistics ( social media, internet marketing, online advertising etc. ) in a pleasant and enjoyable form. The infographic, in most cases, communicates complex datas...
