The Odyssey Was For Sailors
Welcome traveller. Shake the dust off your boots. Come to our campfire. Learn about why The Odyssey has resonated throughout millennia.
Data Stories & Visual Essays
15 Minutes vs 14 Hours: The Reality of Custom Data Visualisation
I spent 14 hours creating a custom data visualisation (a recreation of a template that took 15 minutes to customise). Why? We’ll get to that later. But for now, it means you can get a behind-the-scenes peek of how your…
A Data History of UK Interest Rates
Lets look at a history of interest rates in the UK (or England…) Interest rates in England began in 1694. The government needed to raise money to rebuild the Royal Navy in the Nine Years’ War. It set up an…
How I Used a Market Basket Analysis to Get a Job Offer
How I used a market basket analysis (or associated rule mining) in a Senior Data Analyst interview take-home task to demonstrate predictive analytics and get a job offer.
Nadieh Bremeh’s Space Wars
Continuing the subject of space travel and satellites… Here is Nadieh Bremeh’s visualisation of all the satellite’s in space, commissioned by Scientific American in 2020. Nadieh started out as an astronomer before wanting to flex her creative muscles, becoming a…
Cost of Space Travel
Source: It was winter 2009 when I attended the UK Space Conference. Scoring a discounted ticket as a student, I dutifully attended the science lectures and presentations. I got bored. Don’t get me wrong. The science was cool. But…
That Ben & Jerry’s Data Story by Hesham Eissa and Lindsey Poulter
This made a viral firestorm when it was published by Hesham Eissa and Lindsey Poulter during the pandemic. A beautiful data story about something close to every sugar monsters heart – ice cream. But what you might not know? Hesham…
That time I read a prediction of the last UK Coal Powered Station
It’s kinda cool to see some predictions come true. (No, this wasn’t mine. But the first time renewable energy prices dipped beneath coal energy prices in the early to mid 2010s, this day became inevitable.) We’re three months to the…
Shift in “supertalls”
Once upon a time the tallest skyscraper in the world was the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan. Now – as many of you know, it’s the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (featuring in cinematic masterpieces such as Fast & Furious…
From Walpole to Lettuce – UK Prime Ministers by Tenure
We know a certain Prime Minister had a shorter shelf life than a lettuce, but how do other UK Prime Ministers compare by tenure? View in full screen here In fresh vegetables territory, the Viscount Goderich was replaced between four…