Climate Change and Pharmaceutical Use
Another visualisation project at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health that I've been meaning to write up for a while now. This one was inspired again by Dr Clare Redshaw (who was also a driving force behind the Pharma Town graphic). We actually began talking about this project before that one, but it ended up being pretty extensive, and was only published earlier this year. Now it's in print, I am at liberty to blog about the design process for the paper figures. The first thing that Dr Redshaw presented me with was a series of three tables. The first of which looked like this: A lot of people are very apologetic about presenting me with Excel tables. Which is odd, because I love them. It gives immediate access to the data you'll be working with. Way better for a designer like me than some data locked up in a horrible bar chart or twelve, anyway. This data is all relational rather than numeric, but it's quite complex in its own way.