 "Age of data, visualised data,digitalisation, Joseph Priestley,William Playfair , economists, statistics, graphics, John Snow, Florence Nightingale, graphic design, Nigel Holmes’ graphic for Time, pop graphic, data visualisations, Napoleon,")
We live in the age of data: we marvel at it, fret over it and depend on it. To an unprecedented degree, data, or observations that can be counted, are the boss of our factual universe. Own the data and you own the conversation.
Further, sight trumps the senses and we live in the era of media and images (exposed to exponentially more than in any earlier age), visualised data ought to be better still, to instruct, explain and persuade. With the hopeful rise of a design culture in companies, storytelling with data, the intersection of two buzzwords, is an
