UX London 2012
Graham Odds, April 26th, 2012
Last week I attended the UX London 2012 conference. This was my first public foray into the world of User Experience and it proved to be both educational and thought-provoking. Having read his book, Sketching User Experiences, I had high expectations of the opening presentation from Bill Buxton (@wasbuxton) and he didn’t disappoint. He introduced [...]
Visualising StackOverflow Tag Relationships with Silverlight
Colin Eberhardt, February 20th, 2012
UPDATE: I have posted the sourcecode for this control on codeproject. Recently I have been wondering about the wealth of information that can be gleaned from the 2.5 million programming question on Stack Overflow. A few weeks back I found a tag trending tool, which can be used to measure the rise and fall in [...]
Infographics – info = graphics
Graham Odds, February 9th, 2012
This article presents a concern I have regarding the development of infographics and shows an example of the kind of critical thinking I believe the world of infographics is unfortunately all too often missing. In recent years, numerical infographics have become prevalent in print and on the web. There are even popular sites dedicated to [...]
A Critique of Radar Charts
Graham Odds, September 23rd, 2011
This article presents a critique of radar charts, a chart type commonly used to display multivariate data, highlighting how they are poorly designed to effectively communicate information in the underlying data, and presents a number of more effective alternatives Introduction Radar charts, sometimes known as spider, start or web charts, are a two-dimensional chart type [...]
Flash On The Beach 2011
Graham Odds, September 15th, 2011
Yesterday I spoke at the Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton as part of the Elevator Pitch session. I think the session went really well, with a great mixture of topics so (hopefully) everyone was suitably entertained. As previously mentioned, my 3-minute talk was titled How I Learned to Stop Drawing Lines and Love [...]
Flash On The Beach 2011
Graham Odds, July 12th, 2011
Yesterday I received the exciting news that I will be speaking at the fantastic Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton this September. As Europe’s biggest annual Flash conference it brings together leading minds from all over the industry and focuses on design and development in equal share. I will be presenting as part of [...]
Updating Flex Sparkline to Flex 4
Graham Odds, April 19th, 2011
In a previous post I presented a library of
Stephen Few Data Visualisation Workshop
Graham Odds, June 28th, 2010
Last week I attended a series of information visualisation workshops run by Stephen Few. The classes were based around his three books to date: Show Me The Numbers, Information Dashboard Design and Now You See It. Here follows an overview of the material covered and my thoughts on the event. Show Me The Numbers Day [...]
Ineffective Data Visualisation … and how to fix it
Colin Eberhardt, April 30th, 2010
This blog post looks at a recently published set of charts in a UK newspaper and how they fail to help in the comprehension of the data which they visualise. I will also look at much more effective ways of displaying this same data. At Scott Logic we t…
Flex Sparkline
Graham Odds, February 8th, 2010
Sparklines are described by their inventor, Edward Tufte, as “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics”. They are an ideal tool for displaying trends for single entries within large data sets, for example, stock prices. As well as the standard miniature line series, Tufte’s original specification introduces a ternary sparkline, a.k.a. win-loss sparkline, where small columns are used [...]