Storytelling on Visual Cinnamon

Visualizing Millions of People on the Move

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:34:47 +0000

Societies are shifting from having a rural nature to a more and more urban nature. We face the opportunity to set the course of urbanization on a more sustainable and equitable path. This visualization is based on data on urbanization in East Asia between 2000 and 2010 collected by the World Bank using Satellite images and population models. It aims to provide you with a clear view on the magnitude of changes that can happen in only one decade and challenges you to think about the impact on the following years.

Switching between phone brands

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:40:45 +0000

For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behavior. The respondents gave information about the brand of their current main phone, and the brand of their previous main phone, and their answers are visualized in this data story.

award

Information is Beautiful Awards

“Switching between phone brands” was shortlisted in the Data journalism category of 2015’s Kantar Information is Beautiful awards.

After viewing a talk by Michael Freeman on the Strata conference in Barcelona at the end of November 2014 on Storytelling with data I was inspired to try and tackle one of the visualizations I have most trouble with in terms of explaining to an audience; a chord diagram. I set up the chord diagram piece by piece, explaining what each section means and how it all comes together to tell the story about phone brand switching.

Using “Data Storytelling” with a chord diagram

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been way too long since my last post. I wanted to create something to post, but a few rather busy projects at work and moving to a new home had a big impact on my creativity, as in, I was left with none…