Data visualisation: how numbers tell a story
Data is not boring. Data can explain social and economic trends and start new conversations. Data can inspire new ideas, and it can test how they work. Data can challenge those in power. Data...
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The power of reflection when building your research agenda
Let me start with one Serbian joke: “Have you read the book The Bridge Over the Drina?” (written by Ivo Andric, a Nobel Prize Winer in 1961) says one man to the...
Beyond the artifact: rethinking the research output
Many interventions to increase research impact have received a lot of attention recently, including: Liberating research from PDFs; Changing the writing style from...
How To Make Compelling Policy Video: A Production Guide for Think Tanks
Think tanks are increasingly turning to videos to communicate their research. But are they spending enough time planning and distributing them? In this post, Michael...
What does the future of think tanks communications hold? A conversation with John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox
John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox, talks about the future of think tank communications. He outlines three trends: digital first, the rise of narratives, and...
Visualising data: both a science and an art
Data visualisation is both an art and a science. What's more, it requires many different skills to get right, and prioritising just one or two of these skills over the others is disingenuous...
Bill Dugan of the World Resources Institute
Bill Dugan is WRI’s Visual Communications Manager at the World Resources Institute, USA, and also the winner of the second round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation competition. We...
The On Think Tanks interview: Eric Barrett of JumpStart Georgia
Don’t limit HER possibilities, a static visualization by Eric Barrett at JumpStart Georgia, won round the judges with its original use of photography and creative manner...
Michal Tošovský, who mapped Czech Criminality
After the end of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation competition, we were able to catch up with the winner of the Third Round as well as the final overall winner of the competition, Michal...
Data visualisation: A pen and cantaloupe may be enough
The other week I had the good fortune of participating in an excellent meeting in Prague hosted by the Open Society Foundations: Policy Research, Technology and Advocacy...
On #datavis judging: Enrique Mendizabal’s advice
Round 3 of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition is currently open for submissions. We’ve had some great entries in both Round 1 and Round 2, but this is...
The Budapest Institute’s creators of the ‘Our Money!’ visualisation
Unless you’ve been living under a tree or not reading the On Think Tanks blog (or perhaps both, I suppose they're not mutually exclusive), you know that we’re in the...
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