Huddersfield Star Wheelers hill climb series 2024
Visualising my local cycling club's annual hill climb series (which in no way represents the pain of participating!)
dataviz
2nd October 2024
Hello. I'm Ben.
I'm an experienced digital designer and occasional data visualiser. I've written or created a lot of stuff in over 25 years designing and thinking about digital things. Very little of it is on this site.Visualising the winners of cycling's Grand Tours
A comparison of road cycling's three big race winners since 1903.
dataviz17th March 2023(Updated 14th August 2024)Automated voice services deliver better customer experiences
By enabling happy and engaged customers to look after themselves, a company's customer services function can focus on customers who have problems or are considering cancelling their service.
design16th July 2020Network analysis of Twitter data to predict donation activity in a charity campaign
A research proposal for analysing social media data to predict user behaviour using Gephi, a network analysis tool.
academic21st May 2019SASS for designers using the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
Understanding a few SASS features of the GOV.UK Prototype Kit to more quickly create better and more compliant prototypes.
design4th March 2019Five tips from five weeks using the GOV.UK prototyping kit.
Learning to work with Nunjucks and Express JS to quickly start prototyping digital public services.
design20th November 2018Digital identity and the quantified-self
Considering how a digital identity is constructed on Strava through the continual act of uploading representations of physical activities.
academic12th November 2018(Updated 13th November 2018)Considering Yanny and Laurel in UX design
Considering whether the multi-sensory behaviour known as the McGurk effect is also evident in the use of digital interfaces.
design18th July 2018What if data had a half-life?
Increasingly, data is never deleted but maybe it should diminish over time, and perhaps in doing so could generate new insights, better product engagement and increased ad revenues.
data6th June 2018How has the status of data in society changed in recent years?
Considering how our digital behaviour is represented as data and how that data is used to inform our outcomes.
academic19th December 2017Conducting sentiment analysis on a broad topic: Analysing Brexit sentiment 18-months after the EU referendum
Investigating the shortcomings of sentiment analysis and considering improved future techniques.
academic15th December 2017Internet freedom in relation to political engagement
Considering freedom of expression in digital political campaigns and how the democratic process is affected.
academic8th November 2017