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Simon Rogers has mapped data which ranked 754 beaches around Great Britain for the Guardian Data Store. The visualisation uses a […]

Data is often seen to be as far removed from art as can be. A way of obtaining facts, information and statistics, it is technological rather than personal and beautiful.

Or is it?

Many designers and artists […]

After studying Data Journalism for a year at City University I have come to appreciate the importance of having the skillset to make the most out of numbers and statistics. Many aspiring journalists still see data […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/mar/26/office-for-national-statistics-health

Simon Rogers has published a fantastic interactive graphic for the Guardian Datastore that maps teenage […]

Following on from my earlier post exploring different ways to present data, I have decided to analyse two examples of visualisations from the Guardian Data Store.

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The first is a map of […]

Simon Rogers has created a visualisation showing death penalty statistics, country by country, for the Guardian Data Blog.

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The visualisation uses a bubble graph […]

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 […]

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 them into […]

This post is for people who are new to data sourcing, or interested in Data Journalism but unsure of where to begin.

First, it is useful to start with an idea, question or hypothesis. In Story Based Enquiry […]

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, http://www.ons.gov.uk. I chose to look at […]