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Contributed by Nicola Underdown
Here at Effcomm headquarters, we're always banging on about the need to step away from the computer and go analogue when you're planning your presentation, whether on a website, in a report or in front of a crowded room. Well, Colombian designer Jose Duarte (can it be a coincidence that he shares a name with presentation guru Nancy Duarte?) has taken that idea and run with it, creating a handy Handmade Visualisation Toolkit.
With what looks like ping pong balls, bars, balloons and stickers, Jose suggests you can take the kit out into the world and use it to create visualisations which stimulate thought and debate. No-one is going to be claiming statistical accuracy but they do provide an unexpected approach to visualising data in a new way. I particularly enjoyed his image of the most popular Twitter accounts, as seen somewhere within his garden:
Worth a look, especially as he kindly, or perhaps ambitiously, offers to send a kit to anyone who requests one.