The British Heart Foundation runs a yearly campaign to get children and people who look after children to think about and understand what they’re eating and how to make the conscious choice to be healthier. We ran a survey to find out more about how and what children in the UK eat and drink. One of the […]
Read more "Food for thought"Part of what I am (or at least, will be) learning in my Masters in Information Design at the University of Reading is ‘wayfinding’. Yes, signs. Surely, you might ask, that’s something that town planners, architects, etc take care of? Well, they can if they want, but if you want the job done properly, you might think about […]
Read more "Finding the way"Information is Beautiful is running a set of challenges and awards for visualisation. Since I wasn’t shortlisted, I can show you my entry in their first challenge, which was to visualise how the world’s resources are rapidly running out. Being an optimistic sort of person, I went with the worst case scenario, of course! See how the world’s resources might be […]
Read more "Metal and oil"Warning: contains politics! What does the word ‘open’ mean to you? To me it’s linked with a few things — it means something that everyone can get hold of and get involved in, that everyone can see how it works, and that is open to people’s feedback, and their criticism. It shows you exactly what you’re going […]
Read more "Exactly how open are Open Public Services?"So, I didn’t win a data visualisation competition. Oh well, fair enough — the data set we were given was quite simple — this is how many black students there are applying for universities, and this is how many of them got into Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and UCL. This was, I felt, the wrong question. I didn’t just want to […]
Read more "Black students and asking the wrong questions"Working as I do for the British Heart Foundation, every now and then I get a chance to do some infographics for them. This one is for the astonishing amount of people living with heart failure, versus our success in stopping people dying from a heart attack, and I did it as part of our Mending Broken Hearts campaign (the […]
Read more "Heart failure"Brilliant news today that researchers from the University of Leeds have come up with a new set of instructions for prescription medicines, and a great lesson on how language moves on, too. 50 years ago ‘drowsy’ could well have been a common way of saying you feel sleepy, but who uses it now? It also says something about changing attitudes […]
Read more "Plain language prescriptions"A little something I threw together as an experiment using an old set of cancer statistics. What do you think?
Read more "Picturing cancer"