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Explorations in the field of journalism, data visualisation and content creation. Email at: thomas@colourfulfacts.com
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A graphics reporting project: Why R was my saviour and Excel was not
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…
Thomas de Beus
Feb 2, 2018
Why the U.S. is so insanely popular in Vietnam even after a devastating war
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…
Thomas de Beus
Sep 5, 2017
How the world sees the U.S.A. after Trump’s inauguration
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…
Thomas de Beus
Jul 16, 2017
African Countries Highest Shares Renewable Energy, Data Says
African Countries Highest Shares Renewable Energy, Data Says
But data alone is without exception never the whole story.
Thomas de Beus
May 8, 2017
Data Visualisations Redesigned for the Better
Redesign of a truly bananas chart
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…
Thomas de Beus
Jan 8, 2018
TV is Pre-Eminently the Medium for Unreadable 3D Charts
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…
Thomas de Beus
Jun 24, 2017
Use avocado 🥑 for guacamole, not as a diagram please
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…
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Trump should ignore this county choropleth map when showing election results
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…
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Huge gap Between Perception and Experienced Tensions in Dutch Society
Huge gap Between Perception and Experienced Tensions in Dutch Society
A graphics iteration process.
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Crazy ‘Radial Pie Chart’ Shows the Quality of Life in #1 Denmark
Crazy ‘Radial Pie Chart’ Shows the Quality of Life in #1 Denmark
When I stumbled upon the chart from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), it baffled me. It took me a while to…
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Dutch elections results, worst election chart ever
Dutch elections results, worst election chart ever
Which party got bigger as of the last elections in 2012? There were a lot of good visualisations of the national results. But here I…
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Socialist Party (SP) lies with graph in advance to elections
Socialist Party (SP) lies with graph in advance to elections
It’s a classic. Messing with y-axis by not starting at zero. At first I looked at the difference between the years 2012–2013 and saw that…
Thomas de Beus
May 30, 2017
Is the Central Bureau of Statistics Creating Automated Graphs?
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…
Thomas de Beus
Jun 23, 2017
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