Titanic: Behind the numbers

Wednesday, April 25th, 02012

100 years ago, the RMS Titanic set of on her maiden voyage only to strike tragedy two days later. If we look at the passenger list, what sort of additional information can be gleaned from the data?

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Accessible Color Swatches

Monday, June 20th, 02011

When dealing with charts and graphs it is important to select the right set of colors. Not only for brand awareness, but for other reasons such as accessibility, printability, contrast, maximum understanding and recognition. In this article, I will give you some pointers to finding the best possibly set of colors to be used in your design.

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City Swatches

Tuesday, April 26th, 02011

City Swatches are quick and simple thumbnails of geographic locations, usually cities of similar latitudes and longitudes. Laying out all the city swatches gives a quick and interesting overview of any locations place in the larger scheme of the entire globe.

HLS World Map

Monday, December 13th, 02010

There are several algorithms out there to programatically generate a color from text, but this takes it one step further and generates a color based on a physical location.

Five Simple Steps: Designing with Data

Sunday, July 25th, 02010

Over the last 6-7 months, I have been working on an introductory book. It is over 40,000 words on the topic of charts and graphs. It is more interesting that it sounds. I managed to sneak past the editor sections about crop-circles and the holy grail.

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Sections: Visualizations

Representing sets of data in non-tabular form is the work of visualizations. Complex representations which convey meaning and value to the recipient in a pictorial form is much harder than it seems. The ability to not mis-represent or mis-lead the reader is paramount.