Reflections on a data visualisation faux-pas — This article refers to this blog post. Last week, I couldn’t hold back my eagerness about the radical ideas that I was exposed to during the first few weeks of term — ideas about what’s wrong with international development and the problematic nature of measurements in social science. I was…

Visualising subtitle and audio description availability on European TV channels — Equitable access to goods and services, no matter how trivial, has been a core tenet of the disability justice movement since its inception. Aside from commonly discussed urban design questions such as the addition of ramps to buildings, giving the largest section of the population sensory access to entertainment (i.e…

I’ve become the annoying person who must tell the world that they’ve donated blood — This Monday, I booked a spontaneous appointment in London to give a pint of my blood to whoever was in need. It was much more fun than I thought it would be, so I decided to document the journey through dataviz. Alt text is given below the images.

Presenting ambulance response patterns during a coronavirus surge using multimedia — During London’s third coronavirus lockdown this winter, I became more aware than ever of the sounds that dominate our urban spaces when they aren’t filled with people. Some of the most vivid were the whining ambulance sirens that increasingly punctuated my weekly grocery runs. Treating them as a mainstay of…

This blog has deviated significantly from its original purpose as a showcase for my data visualisation work. I apologise if this content is unexpected and uninteresting, but many things in life are too extraordinary not to write about, and I didn’t know where else to write. :) Since the moment…

An quasi-annual tradition — Hi! 👋 Long time no see. I hope you’ve been well during this unintentional hiatus where my data visualisation work has either been dictated by my “real” job or by five-minute charts that I don’t think are worth sharing (yet). …

Reflections on recent events + visualisations of issues in global health measurement to ring in the final months of my degree — I recently discovered that this article’s data visualisation component is misleading. Read this to find out why, and how I fixed it. I. The personal stuff It’s October 13th. Grocery bags are strewn across my floor, my section of the flat’s fridge is full of neglected greens, and I’ve accumulated a mound of folded…

Visualising the IUCN Red List’s 81,000+ animal species — a work in progress — Note: if you shiver at the sight of creepy-crawlies, you may want to skip this piece. Did you study adorable endangered animals in school? I did. In third grade, I proudly presented my hastily stapled five-page nonfiction manual on dolphins and whales, complete with full-colour drawings, to my class. This…

Visualising interviews of people with diverse diagnoses to commemorate the beginning of the Paralympic Games — Have you heard of Special Books for Special Kids? The YouTube channel (nicknamed “SBSK”) started out in 2016 as a book publishing endeavour by Pennsylvania special education teacher Chris Ulmer, who wanted to share the stories of the middle school students in his classroom with the world. After rejections by…