Data visualisation: it is not all about technology
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Anyone who recently bought an exploding smartphone or spent hours sleeping on the floor at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 might be inclined to agree with American inventor Danny Hillis’s definition of technology as “everything that doesn’t work yet”.
As a society, we continue to be obsessed with the latest technology. And as data visualisation enthusiasts, we continue to be seduced by the latest tools, rarely questioning whether novelty leads to better results.
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Readers often ask me what software we use to make charts at the Financial Times. No chart has generated more questions of this type recently than the Sankey diagrams, which we have used frequently this year to explain shifts in voting patterns in elections across Europe.