Thomas de Beus – Medium

Thomas de Beus

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

A graphics reporting project: Why R was my saviour and Excel was not

When working at the graphics desk at Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, I was tasked to analyse all kinds of trends around one theme: How did…

Feb 2, 2018

A graphics reporting project: Why R was my saviour and Excel was not

Feb 2, 2018

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Redesign of a truly bananas chart

On Twitter, I stumbled upon this horrendous 3D bar chart. When looking at the data, it might have been made in 2005. Data visualisation as…

Jan 8, 2018

Redesign of a truly bananas chart

Jan 8, 2018

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Why the U.S. is so insanely popular in Vietnam even after a devastating war

During the 60’s until 1975 the United States sent a lot of troops to Vietnam. They dropped thousands of bombs and sprayed with the infamous…

Sep 5, 2017

Why the U.S. is so insanely popular in Vietnam even after a devastating war

Sep 5, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

How the world sees the U.S.A. after Trump’s inauguration

After a survey, the Pew Research Center came to a conclusion: U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership. In 37…

Jul 16, 2017

How the world sees the U.S.A. after Trump’s inauguration

Jul 16, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

TV is Pre-Eminently the Medium for Unreadable 3D Charts

The Dutch Talkshow Jinek fell into the trap of showing a 3D bar graph from the exit poll of the UK elections May 2017. Numerous times TV…

Jun 24, 2017

TV is Pre-Eminently the Medium for Unreadable 3D Charts

Jun 24, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Is the Central Bureau of Statistics Creating Automated Graphs?

To me, it almost looks like there’s no human involved making the much-needed design decisions, so I decided to contact the Central Bureau…

Jun 23, 2017

Is the Central Bureau of Statistics Creating Automated Graphs?

Jun 23, 2017

Thomas de Beus

Data Visualisations Redesigned for the Better

As a cure for unpalatable side effects when seeing a crappy graph I reshape them in something better. Sometimes there are those who…

May 30, 2017

Data Visualisations Redesigned for the Better

May 30, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Use avocado 🥑 for guacamole, not as a diagram please

The Dutch love avocado. Newspaper Trouw published an article where they showed from which countries the Netherlands imported the green…

May 30, 2017

Use avocado 🥑 for guacamole, not as a diagram please

May 30, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Trump should ignore this county choropleth map when showing election results

But he won’t because he loves it too much. When Trump invited some reporters to talk about his 100 days in office, he handed out an…

May 30, 2017

Trump should ignore this county choropleth map when showing election results

May 30, 2017

Thomas de Beus
in
Colourful Facts

Huge gap Between Perception and Experienced Tensions in Dutch Society

A graphics iteration process.

May 30, 2017

Huge gap Between Perception and Experienced Tensions in Dutch Society

May 30, 2017

Thomas de Beus

Thomas de Beus

Using #ddj 👨‍💻 to help tighten the gap between reality and peoples’ perception of reality to spark ⚡️ conscious citizenship 🏛 for a better shared future 🌍

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams