Author Archives: Dave Bowker

About Dave Bowker

Graphic designer and front-end web developer inspired by the learning and understanding of data visualisations, infographics, and how they can be used to tell stories and illustrate complex ideas.

Visualising Health And Disease

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Dave Bowker

One of my favourite sub­jects of visu­al­i­sa­tions are those that deal with health and dis­ease. At some point or another we’ll all need med­ical help, whether in an emer­gency sit­u­a­tion or ongo­ing care and treat­ment as we age. What fas­ci­nates … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Futuristic Interfaces

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Dave Bowker

I’m a big film fan, espe­cially of sci-fi that’s set in the near future. Films of this genre can have alot of future tech­nolo­gies on dis­play and almost all of them usu­ally require some sort of amaz­ing inter­face to these … Con­tinue read­ing →

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OneDotZero — Protein Forum

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave Bowker

Next week at the One­DotZero fes­ti­val and Inter­net Week Europe I’ve been asked to be a part of an edu­ca­tional panel on data visu­al­i­sa­tion. Along with David McCan­d­less, Andrew Shoben and Peter Crnokrak I’ll be shar­ing a lit­tle of my … Con­tinue read­ing →

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How big is the USA?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Dave Bowker

The first draft of this visu­al­i­sa­tion was cre­ated in about 8 hours before the dead­line for USA by Design­ers expired, on the day before I had to move out of my house and before I’d started any pack­ing! So, to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Buzz Tracker

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Dave Bowker

This week I’ve been work­ing on a sweet new data visu­al­i­sa­tion that aggre­gates opin­ion from twit­ter for a specfic event or set of top­ics. All week it’s been evolv­ing, grow­ing in abil­ity and scope and I think it’s about time … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Plans

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Dave Bowker

So lately I’ve been think­ing about just what I want Design­ing The News to be and I had a Jerry Maguire moment — an epiphany. There are alot of data visu­al­i­sa­tion blogs out there that con­sis­tently post great exam­ples of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Educational food and drink infographics

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Dave Bowker

In the past cou­ple of weeks I’ve been notic­ing an increase in info­graph­ics about food and drink, whether these are brand new pro­duc­tions or just old con­tent being resur­faced I thought I’d start col­lect­ing them as and when they cropped … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Resolution

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Dave Bowker

Out of the three res­o­lu­tions I made this new year this is the only one I’ve not bro­ken yet. Sad but true. 8 days in I’ve already had a beer and cut my hair. Re-launching, writ­ing, and design­ing for this … Con­tinue read­ing →

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SXSW Panel — Please vote for the DTN talk

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Dave Bowker

It’s been over a year last month since I posted any­thing on this site — too long by any stretch. I know most of you read­ing this in feed read­ers will be pretty sur­prised (prob­a­bly hav­ing for­got­ten all about it), … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Quick update

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Dave Bowker

I men­tioned a while back that I’ll be post­ing some­thing on the rejected designs and the process I went through to cre­ate some of the visu­al­i­sa­tions. That’s still on my to do list, and hope­fully in the next cou­ple of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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