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Infographics at work

26 November, 2008 (15:39) | visualisation

Last night I watched IOUSA on the BBC iPlayer (unfortunately this was over cable TV - I can’t find it on the web iPlayer). It’s a film made by the former US Comptroller General, David Walker, which attempts to convince the viewer of the seriousness of America’s national debt problem.
…and it worked on me. The [...]

Google Flu Trends

13 November, 2008 (13:09) | internets, visualisation

In this post, I’m going to try to outline a convergence between two separate trains of thoughts. It might get messy, so bear with me.
Train one (think of this as the Edgware branch of the Northern Line) is search engine optimisation.
One of the areas I’ve been working in a lot recently is search engine optimisation. [...]

The 2008 US box office visualised

29 August, 2008 (22:24) | visualisation

A nice week-by-week visualisation of the US box office takings throughout 2008. It gives you a good sense of how quickly many films drop off the radar, and also of the size of the gap between successful movies and (comparative) flops.

As you scroll along to the right, for example, you’ll find yourself thinking that Iron [...]

I’ve seen the future and it’s… a bit like MacOS X

11 August, 2008 (20:31) | internets, visualisation

My friend Lindsey sent me this link earlier on today. It’s a video exploring a future user experience concept, developed by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs.

Jill looks at the New York Times website

In the video Jill, the principal user, makes use of a number of futuristic interface devices to:

Interact with a friend while browsing
Extract and [...]

Pubs, epidemiology and geo-mashups

23 July, 2008 (16:06) | visualisation

I recommend reading this blog post from Jeffrey Veen, author of “The Art & Science of Web Design”.
You may be familiar with Dr John Snow as the man who successfully traced the source of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak. A pub on Broadwick Street in Soho is named after him, and the water-pump that started it [...]

Word clouds and silver linings

14 July, 2008 (11:29) | projects, user centred design, visualisation

Recently I carried out some user testing on a late-beta website. At the end of each test session, participants were given a piece of paper listing over 100 adjectives - both positive and negative - and asked to tick the ones most applicable to the website they’d been using.
As the week of testing came to [...]