Limn

Limn (verb) to depict or describe in painting or words. Also: this site, dedicated to the art of data visualisation.

Projects: data visualisations so far

Here is a sample of some of the data visualisation projects done so far. Two of them have a write-up or a page of their own, and the titles of those link to it.

One Year of Comrades Training

A dense grid of vertical lines and dots, one row per runner

A Timeline of When the World Ended

A timeline of dots along a horizontal axis, with a box describing one prediction

South African Birthday Graph

A grid of months against rank, shaded from lowest to highest

IP Attack Map

A world map with a log of attacks and coloured markers

2011 Election Map and Display Wall

A map of South Africa coloured by winning party, with a ward details panel

Comrades Marathon Histogram

A histogram of 2013 Comrades Marathon finishing times

South African Census Explorer

A census explorer with filters, a bar chart by province and a map

Path Elevation Calculator

A map with two sites marked and an elevation profile between them

Honey Pot Project

Red circles of different sizes, each holding a word