INTERACTIVE VIZ This week's theme is inspired by a recent family holiday to Norfolk, where I spent most of my time staring out to sea and shouting "there's one!" every time a seal poked their head above the water. It was the first time I've seen seals in the wild and it was a joy… Continue reading S is for Seals
INTERACTIVE VIZ If you've been following my #AlphabetProject blog posts, you will probably have come to the realisation by now that I am a nostalgic soul. And this post is no different. Dad took me to my first football match when I was five years old. We arrived early and headed straight for the turnstiles.… Continue reading Q is for Questions
INTERACTIVE VIZ For as long as I can remember, I've slept with my curtains open. Whenever I can't sleep, I find great comfort in staring up at the stars and moon, and I soon manage to drift off again. When I moved to London 5 years ago, I was looking for a job and thought… Continue reading P is for Planets
INTERACTIVE VIZ When Adam said he'd chosen Olympians for our fifteenth week, my first thought went to "Super Saturday". It was exhilarating to watch Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah all win Gold within 44 minutes of each other on Saturday, 4 August 2012, especially having watched Great Britain win Gold in rowing and… Continue reading O is for Olympians
INTERACTIVE VIZ Lesson number one in collecting your own data...make sure you're collecting the RIGHT data! After spending several evenings collecting the data for my viz, I went back to the website to finish off and realised that the map showed a pin in Alaska instead of in the Arctic Ocean. DAMN!!! Instead of scrapping… Continue reading N is for North Pole
If you're reading this, you want to know how the magic trick works...if that's not why you're here, look away now!! If you're still here, I'm assuming you're dying to understand the magic. Well, I'll let you into a secret - this isn't a magic trick. It's a maths trick! So how does it work?… Continue reading M is for Magic – the trick
INTERACTIVE VIZ It's confession time - I don't like magic. In fact, I hate it when I can't work out how a trick has been done. My husband finds it hilarious and will usually watch me to see my reaction instead of the trick! But when I saw that Adam had created a tableau deck… Continue reading M is for Magic
INTERACTIVE VIZ I love love LOVE Lego! So much so, my wedding cake topper was two Lego figures and I have Lego baubles that I hang on my Christmas tree each year. My wedding cake topper was a Lego groom (complete with glasses and beard) and a Lego bride with a big white dress, glasses… Continue reading L is for LEGO
INTERACTIVE VIZ The #AlphabetProject is intended to be a chance for Adam and I to practice our data viz skills and we purposely chose light-hearted topics for that reason. This week is an exception. My heart was broken last week. I cannot make sense of the events that led to the death of George Floyd… Continue reading K is for King
INTERACTIVE VIZ This week, I've taken a look at the events that took place over Easter weekend in 2015 - The Hatton Garden Heist. It was the biggest jewellery robbery in British history and, depending on which newspaper you read, was worth anywhere between £14 million and £200 million! The audacity of drilling through a… Continue reading J is for Jewel…lery Heist
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