by Eva Murray | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog |
100 weeks of #MakeoverMonday. We may be going on about it a bit… well, it is a significant milestone and one we’ve truly enjoyed reaching together with all of you, our community of contributors who create vizzes and data stories every week, no matter what...
by Eva Murray | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog |
After last week’s smashing results with endless great vizzes and submissions for Makeover Monday, we have another strong week behind us with many excellent visualizations built on a dataset about sustainable public transport in cities around the world. This...
by Eva Murray | Nov 4, 2017 | Blog |
For week 44 I chose a dataset that wasn’t easy but contained geographical data. This was somewhat selfish as I needed to get a few ideas for our upcoming webinar with Mapbox. Seeing what people do with maps helps us create better content in the webinar. I also...
by Eva Murray | Oct 6, 2017 | Blog |
We’re at week 40 and only days away from TC17 and our biggest Makeover Monday live event of the year. Before I board that plane on Saturday morning to make my way to Sin City, there is a recap to write and this week’s Makeover Monday was another great...
by Eva Murray | Sep 22, 2017 | Blog |
For week 38 we challenged the community to analyze and visualize our race data, which we produced on Sunday as Andy ran the Richmond Marathon and I competed at the Sprint Triathlon Age Group World Championship in Rotterdam. This meant the data came out late on Sunday,...
by Eva Murray | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog |
For week 36, we teamed up with Chloe Tseng and #VizForSocialGood in a collaboration with the United Nations SDG Action campaign to visualize survey results for the MyWorld survey looking at people’s perception on the successful (or not) achievement of...
by Eva Murray | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog |
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday we challenged you to visualize 5,000 years of solar eclipse data, provided by NASA. The resulting visualizations were a collection is informative, interactive, artistic and creatively designed stories about solar eclipses across...
by Eva Murray | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog |
We are on the road again. Or still. Whichever. But we’re in Berlin and it’s a fun place to be and we ran another #MakeoverMonday live event, held as part of Exasol’s Xperience2017 conference. The session was open to the public and a great opportunity...
by Eva Murray | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog |
Half-way there! Wow we made it to the half-way mark for 2017! 26 makeovers done, 26 to go. We have really enjoyed the past 6 months and it’s been a very successful time for the project and the dataviz community. We’ve welcomed many new participants and...
by Eva Murray | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog |
After running Makeover Monday live events in Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam and London earlier this year, it was time for us to make an appearance in Germany. Yesterday we kicked off a week of ‘German Makeovers’ in Frankfurt, where The Information Lab hosted us...
by Eva Murray | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog |
This week we analysed data from the Tate Collection. Metadata about thousands of paintings and drawings and probably quite a different dataset for the Makeover Monday community. Oh the creativity! What I really liked seeing this week was the amount of...
by Eva Murray | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog |
Who doesn’t love a map? For week 22 we looked at global internet users across almost 200 countries. Andy and I both had a fair bit of critique for the original viz and I am very pleased with the numerous great submissions from the community. WELL DONE!...
by Eva Murray | May 5, 2017 | Blog |
What a cool week for Makeover Monday. Aside from the live events that happened in Sydney, we also welcomed a number of new community members who submitted their first visualizations this week. The dataset contained aggregated Sydney ferry trips from July 2016 to...
by Eva Murray | Mar 10, 2017 | Blog |
During week 10 we used SocialBlade’s statistics on the Top 500 YouTube Gaming Channels to improve on their simple table and create vizzes that would convey the information better than the original. There were a number of really good submissions this week and I...
