Author: Elizabeth Shaw
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Beauty in the Incas
As you might remember from my last blog, I’m currently travelling and hadn’t intended to post much on here along the way – but there’s just so much in the way of colourful geometric patterns here that I couldn’t resist! I’m in Cusco, typically known as the gateway to Machu…
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Patterns & Beauty in Travel
This month one of my favourite topics – travel! Topical too, because I’m just about to set off on a year of remote-working and volunteering abroad myself 🙂
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Issue 8 of the Barometer out now
The Laxfield UK CRE Debt Barometer, with analytics by Elizabeth Martin, was featured in the FT again today. Selected visualisations from the report below!
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Best of the viz blogs
If you enjoy my blog, here are some other visualisation blogs (my favourites!) that you might like to sign up to for interesting updates
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Media visualisations
In my most recent project role, I’ve been working on some visualisations to better describe a media platform’s audience characteristics, amongst other things. Here are some of my favourites (of those that used publicly-available data 😉 ).
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Beauty in maps
I recently found out that visualisation originated from maps – I always knew there was a reason I enjoyed Geography A-level 😉 I remember spending hours poring over maps when I was younger too. Visualisation does not just have its historical roots in maps however – given the various parallels below, the link…
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Patterns in paper
Last night I went with a few colleagues to a ‘Mindful Origami’ workshop in Knightsbridge, led by Samuel Tsang (hashtag thanks to his wife: Origami + mindfulness = #MindFOLDness) A uniquely relaxing evening: pleasing symmetry and shapes + pretty colourful stationery + making things = perfect after a day on a computer!
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Patterns in cities
My previous post (a while ago now sorry – Christmas got in the way!) was about patterns in nature, but if you live in a city you can see patterns all around you too. Humans have taken inspiration from nature since the beginning of time: just as there’s geometry in nature with…
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The Beauty of Patterns
This week I thought I’d collect together examples of two of my favourite things colliding: nature and maths! Patterns are everywhere around us, you have only to look 🙂 I hope the beauty displayed below inspires people to create some of these or see them in nature for yourself – and in doing so, you’ll be unwittingly…
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A trip to Cuba: emissions focus
On a recent trip to Cuba, we enjoyed a very laidback lifestyle and many expeditions. But afterwards with my data head back on, it also struck me that with so many amazing classic cars around…
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