Classic French cuisine, as defined by e.g. Escoffier, has a set of base sauces such as velouté from which other sauces like normande can be derived. This article is an attempt at visualising the sauces and the relationship between them. The motivation behind it is someone I know who is studying catering, and as part … Continue reading Visualising sauces in French cuisine
Category: Visualisation
The seven (or four) ages of man
This article is mostly about visualising some data from the 15th and 16th centuries, about how someone's lifespan can be divided up into stages. It happened because my friend Tamsin Lewis (a historical music expert) pointed me at a tweet by Dr Alun Withey (a history lecturer). The tweet had a photo of some lovely … Continue reading The seven (or four) ages of man
Modularisation – cohesion at many levels
This article builds on the previous article, so if you are new to the terms coupling and cohesion as they apply to software, please look at that first. In this article I’m going to look at cohesion as it applies to methods (or functions, if that’s what you call such things). Specifically, I’m going to … Continue reading Modularisation – cohesion at many levels
Modularisation – coupling and cohesion
This is related to the second of the things requested by Jesper, which was encapsulation. Encapsulation is a tool to use when designing software. It’s a bit abstract, and I don’t think people always agree on what it means. To me, encapsulation is part of the bigger term modularisation, which doesn’t immediately help because it’s … Continue reading Modularisation – coupling and cohesion
Visualising music
I watched a YouTube video about how to play the guitar part for 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon. It’s an excellent video, that breaks things into manageable chunks that gradually build into the full thing. The video reminded me of diminished chords, and sliding them up and down a guitar, which … Continue reading Visualising music
Trends in UK Coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths
A friend asked a question to do with Coronavirus that I couldn’t answer but I thought I should. So I got some data, did some calculations on it, and then worked out how to display it. The question was: how bad were hospitalisations and deaths from Coronavirus (in the UK) when the daily reported Coronavirus … Continue reading Trends in UK Coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths
Visualising wealth inequality using Lorenz curves
In this article I will do some analysis and visualisation of data on wealth inequality. The data is, slightly randomly, a combination of historical data from three towns in Suffolk from 1522, and the most recent data about Great Britain. I’ll go through the data a little, the analysis, the visualisations, and why I think … Continue reading Visualising wealth inequality using Lorenz curves
Sankey diagrams to explain Coronavirus and Covid19
There’s a kind of diagram, called a Sankey diagram, that can be used to show relationships between things. I will briefly introduce it, and then use one to illustrate Coronavirus and Covid19 in the UK. It will simplify things, but I hope will still help you get a better understanding of how the various numbers … Continue reading Sankey diagrams to explain Coronavirus and Covid19
Analysing flooding rivers
I live in a place that has a river flowing through it. Like in many places in the UK, we have had floods this week, which has been stressful for people whose homes and businesses have been affected. Fortunately, we were OK and no-one here was affected too badly. As a complement to the stress … Continue reading Analysing flooding rivers
GB roads with gaps
I was driving recently, and realised that I was near a road that appeared to have a large gap. By that I mean: road A joins road B and stops, but some distance further along B there’s a bit more road A. It’s as if A has been chopped into two by B, and the … Continue reading GB roads with gaps
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