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Data design: The genius of Jon Snow

March 23, 2009 at 4:28 pm

I recently finished reading Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map, which is an incredible book on the Cholera outbreak in London's Soho district in 1854. One wouldn't naturally associate violent intestinal disease in Victorian London as a great source of design inspiration, but not only did this dark chapter in London's history produce a fantastic data visualisation model, it also changed the model of how all urban environments exist to this day.

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Design,
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Flickr badge code issues

September 15, 2008 at 7:48 pm

I've been using a Flickr badge on my site for quite some time now to display four thumbnails from my Flickr photostream. However, all of a sudden, without any warning it started to misbehave and I found the badge displaying five thumbnails with the first being an unclickable blank white image.

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My new business cards

July 21, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Surprisingly enough, even though I've been working for the thick part of a decade now, I've never actually had my own business cards. I've lost count the amount of occasions I've been out and about in the past year and fumbled around with bits of paper and a pen when exchanging details with people I've met at conferences, or on the tube etc. I made it my mission - along with this site - to get some made up.

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