Reusable visualisation
You may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…
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New flow of funds data was published this morning. Alongside the main release are four interactive products which each look…
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A stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…
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In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…
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The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….
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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.
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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.
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A couple of weeks ago I attended the Graphical Web 2016, a festival of graphics, data and general geekery hosted…
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The following blog post is written by Rhodri Griffith, Creative Design Lead. Do it like a designer Late last year…
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We’re in an art gallery…… but there are no paintings on the walls. The paintings are just described to us….
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