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Stacking the bars in your favour!

Frank Donnarumma
August 17, 2017

Categories: Data, dataviz, design

A stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…

Reinventing the Wheel

Categories: accessibility, Data, dataviz, design, visual.ONS

In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…

The humble pie chart: part2

John Nixon
February 28, 2017

Categories: dataviz, infographics

The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….

The humble pie chart

John Nixon
January 26, 2017

Categories: dataviz, infographics

A blog on pie charts? surely everyone knows how to use them. Just googling “pie charts” and hitting the “images tab” in a browser gives us a fair indication… people in general don’t, and the results are worryingly bad.

A year in the life of Digital Publishing

Categories: accessibility, blog, Data Discovery, dataviz, design, opendata, publishing, roadmap, social media, visual.ONS, website

Well then. As is only right and normal at the end of a year, it is time to look back at a year in the life of Digital Publishing. It has been a big year for us here in ONS. We launched our new site in February. We also saw a bunch of people move on to new projects and recruited some very talented people to help us ensure we continue to improve everything we do.