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. Pi (π), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is a mathematical phenomenon. It is found in a massive variety of fields such as statistics, geometry,...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. For systems of 3 ODEs (Ordinary Differential Equations), there are two ways of plotting the results of outcomes given initial conditions. The first is to plot each of...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Limit cycles are interesting systems whereby the solution to a set of differential equations produces a phase portrait whose directional flow enters a cycle and gets...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. The single pendulum is a simple system to model, as it is simply the force of the weight of the bob acting with respect to gravity: Simple gravity pendulum diagram,...
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. School children are taught the order of the powers of ten the same way they are taught to count to ten, say the alphabet or recite their times tables. There is barely...
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...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. The Internet is a global WAN (wide area network), connecting a system of computer networks all operating under the same protocol, TCP/IP (Transmission Control...
Having completed my degree, I wanted to share some of the work I did as part of my final year project on data visualisation. As this shocking graph indicates... I've prepared several articles which I'll publish here. All posts in the series will be tagged with datavis-project.
