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3rd February, 2021 Chapter nine of “The Data Detective” / “How To Make The World Add Up” is all about data visualisation – its power, and its pitfalls. The overarching story is about how one woman launched a public health revolution, armed with a fancy pie chart. I’m fond of the chapter – but how does it look to audiobook listeners? Ah. Obviously the pictures in the audiobook are… well, nonexistent. So here are links to the graphics in question. First, Nigel Holmes’s famous – infamous? – graphic, ‘Diamonds were a girl’s best friend‘, produced for Time magazine in ...

Data Matters Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue This is a guest blog by Andy Cotgreave, technology evangelist, Tableau While we all share the frustration, it’s not the charts that are at fault, and it’s also not possible to simplify something as complex as a pandemic down to a single number. Some MPs, voicing the frustration of a tired public, are calling for church-fundraising thermometer style charts that simplify the entire Covid-19 situation into...