Visualising the winners of cycling's Grand Tours
A comparison of road cycling's three big race winners since 1903.
17th March 2023
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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.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.
16th July 2020designNetwork 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.
21st May 2019academicSASS 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.
4th March 2019designFive 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.
20th November 2018designDigital identity and the quantified-self
Considering how a digital identity is constructed on Strava through the continual act of uploading representations of physical activities.
12th November 2018academicConsidering 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.
18th July 2018designWhat 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.
6th June 2018dataHow 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.
19th December 2017academicConducting 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.
15th December 2017academicInternet freedom in relation to political engagement
Considering freedom of expression in digital political campaigns and how the democratic process is affected.
8th November 2017academic