The Top 10 Best Selling Nintendo Switch Games

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A visualization about the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games, as of June 30th, 2024 created with Blender. I made this visualization specifically for my (upcoming) book about creative data visualization, showing how you can look outside of the “standard” tools and software and be inspired by other fields to create captivating and unique visualizations of data.

I gave myself one week to learn Blender and create a unique and custom data visualization using a relatively simple dataset. It was frustrating at the start, as there is much to learn when starting to use Blender. However, the more time I spent fine-tuning the visual, the more I enjoyed the process. Especially when I got to play with materials and lighting and really see the reason I wanted to try Blender in the first place: that realistic result of 3D with shadows and a visual look that can’t be achieved using the more regular data visualization tools.

The 100 Tallest Buildings in the World

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This self-initiated data visualization appeared in the third issue of Nightingale, the printed journal of the Data Visualization Society. The theme of the issue was guidelines and with this visual, I embrace one of the main “taboos” within data visualization: 3D (bar) charts. It is accompanied by a short article that explains how you can go beyond the guidelines and rules when you have the right reasons.

Using a 3D perspective in data visualization is generally only to the detriment of the visual, and for good reason. However, when I started playing with the dataset of the 100 tallest buildings in the world, and noticed that they all fall within a rather narrow band of heights (apart from the tallest handful), I knew that comparing exact heights would not be the main point of visualizing this dataset. Instead, seeing that more than half of those buildings are in China, that most of them are offices, and which buildings once were the tallest (and for how long) became the insights that I wanted the visual to focus on.

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The Top 10 Best Selling Nintendo Switch Games

The 100 Tallest Buildings in the World