Category Video

Better figures awards?

September 28, 2017 · by · in Animation, Chart, Maps, palettes, Video · 2 Comments

After seeing John Kennedy’s new visualisation of warming by latitude, Richard Erskine (@essaysconcern) suggested that there should be awards for climate visualisation. We heartily agree here at Better Figures, there is so much excellent work going on that should be highlighted, celebrated and shared. We could certainly do an annual round up of the best […]

A welcome development for matplotlib

July 10, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, matplolib, palettes, Presentation, python, Video · 10 Comments

Here is a great video, describing viridis, the new default colourmap for matplotlib in the programming language Python. This has some great features – It’s perceptually uniform across its range, it’s pretty, and it works for the colourblind. Oh, and you’re free to use it. The last five minutes or so describe the process and thinking […]

Making Better Figures [Video]

March 30, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Animation, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, palettes, Presentation, Projection, Timeseries, Video · 1 Comment

Better Figures made a video! https://vimeo.com/123037693 The video offers some tips for making better figures. We cover: A brief history of statistical graphics [02:20] Everybody loves a bad figure [08:10] Some principles [11:35] Making better timeseries (applying those principles) [13:13] Projection distortion [18:00] Better Palettes [18:46] We need to talk about “Rainbow” [23:30] Design, and […]

The pump handle

February 19, 2013 · by · in Animation, Chart, Maps, Video · 2 Comments

Every so often, a graphic comes along that does something so nicely, that it would seem churlish to criticise it. This is one of those times. So, we take our hats off to the people at the Earth System Research Laboratory, for creating this rather wonderful video showing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide over […]