So you have some data. Let's say it's a record of the number of instances of some things. Let's say it's the number of movies you own, grouped by the year they were released. Let's say you have those data in the form of a dictionary in Python, like so: years = {2000: 2, 2001: 9, 2002: 10, 2003:...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Digitally, colour can be defined by a set of values defining the level of Red, Green and Blue in each pixel. The number of values between "empty" and "full" denotes...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Recorded sound is taken in analogue form, converted to digital form and stored as binary. The decimal numeric representation of each of the samples can be used to...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Tag clouds are a great way of dynamically visualising the author-defined keyword content of a blog or news feed. I created a system which would store tags linked to...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. I undertook a challenge to hack (not in the illegal, immoral meaning of the word) some public transport data and find a way of making it useful. I chose the motorway...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Around the time I started this project I became an avid Rubik's Cube solver. I practised lots and used to record my solve times using an Android app on my smartphone....
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. I navigated to the list of my Facebook friends (facebook.com/friends.php) and removed the default filtering (usually shows recently active friends) so that the list...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. There are many ways to generate visualisations using any of the languages I have talked about so far, even some in combination with each other. Sometimes the method...
