Adobe Illustrator is my preferred tool for data visualisation. The majority of my work focuses on data storytelling and this software works well in an area requiring very custom graphics. Experimenting with different tools is not something I do often - like many, I sti...
The role of Data Storyteller often falls on the person already knee-deep (or even completely submerged) in data. They have cleaned it, transformed it, explored it, visualised it, analysed it, modelled it, and now they have to use it to ‘tell a story’.
Choosing the right graph type is an important part of any data visualisation project, with each graph usually following its own set of design rules. But the majority of graph types use only one or two basic design elements to display data. By understanding best practic...
But there are two parts to this request: the writing of the story, followed by its telling.
To tell a data story, you have to write it first - unless you were born with the innate ability of story creation on the fly, and eat data for breakfast (b...
Anyone working in analytics will be familiar with the Analytics Cycle, in some shape or form. It’s an Analyst’s version of the Scientific Method (perhaps even, justification of the term “data science”).
The Analytics Cycle outlines the high-level process followed by Ana...
There are lots of terms thrown around the analytics industry (artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, etc.) and we often tend to over-complicate their meaning. But one of these “buzz words” is near and dear to my heart, so I...
As someone who is lucky enough to specialise in communicating technical information 😍, data visualisation is a big part of my professional life. But all those NDAs make it hard to share a lot of this work with the world. Therefore, at the beginning of the year I set m...
The psychology of colour is fixed in us from an early age and businesses have a long-standing obsession with traffic light inspired data visualization. But how effective are these red-green dashboards when viewed by someone who can’t differentiate between these colours...
