There’s a lot of books out there on data visualisation – from collections of luscious graphics, to practical how-to guides and specialist texts. Here’s what’s on our bookshelf, and what we’d like to add.
The big list of data visualisation books
‘The underlying structure of the world’ – the data art of Gregory J. Matthews
Gregory J. Matthews is assistant professor of statistics at Loyola University in Chicago. Alongside data visualisations, he also makes data inspired art.
Visualising Australian Postcodes
We’ve made two maps to help you understand how Australia’s postcode system works. Breaking apart the postcode This is an adaptation of Ben Fry’s zipdecode using Australian data. The first number of a postcode usually…
Will you outlive your representatives in parliament?
Data sources ABS Life Tables Senators and Members by Date of Birth
The average face of Labor, Liberal and National party in the Australian Parliament
F1 & M2: NATIONALF2 & M1: LIBERALF3 & M3: LABOR Methodology Photos from Australian Parliament House Image generated using Face Morpher
Inspirations #8
Atlas of Urban Expansion The NYU Urban Expansion Program monitors the global urban expansion on cities of 100,000 people or more. In addition to being an excellent source of data, the website has a map…
Inspirations #7
How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team works with graphics in R It’s always the best when people share their learnings. That’s why we appreciate BBC’s insights about creating graphics with R. The technical details…
Inspirations #6
Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016 This nature-inspired visualisation shows the shift in the origins of immigration to the U.S. from Europe to Latin America and Asia. The designers at have found the perfect analogy…
Inspirations #5
#DayDohViz A silver winner of the Information is Beautiful Awards 2018, DayDohViz is a daily inspiration project from Amy Cesal that experiments with physically visualising data using Play-Doh. Topics such as breaking down personal expenses and…
How the 2018 Queensland bushfire spread
More than 100 fires burned across the state of Queensland in late November/early December 2018. The fires were caused by unprecedented alignment of climate change, heatwave conditions and catastrophic fire danger. Emergency services described it…
