Yesterday I went to David McCandless’s talk “Knowledge is Beautiful” at the British Library. It’s part of a series of events in conjunction with the Beautiful Science exhibition and I felt lucky to have snaffled up a last-minute spare ticket as the talk was sold out. If you work in data and you aren’t already … Continue reading
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Global Moves Word Cloud
These are word clouds based on my book Global Moves! Designed with Wordle, they’re not just keywords arranged in a pretty pattern: they also provide a visual representation of the frequency of terms in the text. I wasn’t really surprised by the results but some things came out much more clearly than I expected–and other … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 