Mariana Mota from Oxford Computer Consultants spoke about “UX is teamwork”. My #graphicalweb16 slides are now online! Check 'em out here: Matthew Ström November 3, 2016 Have a look at the slides from this presentation: That said, the options are more limited than the chartwell option.
I imagine it might work nicely on social media platforms for illustrating the direction of a change quickly.
The beauty of this approach being that unicode works in many different environments, without the need for any font loading. The second looked at the use of unicode characters to create mini-charts. The first was the use of the font FF Chartwell – which is a font which lets build some very basic html (span elements) set a class, type numbers, add some colour styles and you have a chart. The presentation included a few hints and tips for doing the same with data which we’re going to explore when we get a moment. He drew parallels with emoticons, which have quickly been adopted to convey emotion. He spoke about the role of graphics in newsrooms & reporting, and the idea that graphics didn’t have to be big standout “special occasions” but they can be small graphics, often replacing words or numbers. There were some thoroughly entertaining talks – but what did we learn, and what will I take back to the office? Here were a few of my highlights that I thought I’d share…įirst up was a talk on “tiny vis” by Matthew Strom who describes himself as a pixel farmer. It felt like a homecoming in many ways, the first being that our team had hosted this very same conference a couple of years ago in Winchester, and the second being the fact that it was hosted in Devon, where I grew up! I turned my West Country accent up a notch just to fit in. A couple of weeks ago I attended the Graphical Web 2016, a festival of graphics, data and general geekery hosted by the Infomatics Lab at the Met Office in Exeter.