Email: caroline@carolinebeavon.com

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Journalist with 12 years experience (broadcast / online) now specializing in in information design and online content.

An MA graduate in Online Journalism, focusing on entertainments and pop culture data, shortlisted for an Information is Beautiful Challenge Award.
Clients include publishers, local government bodies, statistics websites Oh My Gov and Microsoft.

I also help teach data journalism, online journalism and social media at Birmingham City University.

(Image courtesy of thefixer via Filckr) I was recently invited to speak to BA students at BCU about enterprise – and specifically, how I managed to forge a freelance career for myself. Having retrained (I used to be a commercial radio journalist)…

Is my local library in Birmingham open today?

Interactive map allowing users to see if their local library is open on a particular day

Tableau Public – creating a map for someone else to update

A quick post explaining how I created a Tableau Public map for someone else, so they could update the data in the future

UPDATE Well, blow me down with a feather … new look The Kernel is definitely worth a revisit. I was always put off by the overly-snarky comments (see below) and it appears I wasn’t the only one. The site has…

As a freelancer it’s very easy to fall into bad habits – working from home, lots of different projects and being my own boss means long days of low productivity, and no clear division between work time and free time….

Icons, pictograms, smileys, dingbats – call them what you like – visual language is a fascinating area of design. Yes, varieties of visual language has been used for years, with varying degrees of success, and it’s likely that icons…

Off-the-peg infographics – Easel.ly V Piktochart

Fancy giving one of these “infographics designer tools” a go? Check out my quick review of Easel.ly and Piktochart, and find out why they’re not always the best option

When was the last time you sat down and read a fairy story?

Moseley Exchange – a new way (for me) to work

Since I started working for myself, I’ve been on a hunt for that *perfect* place to work. I tried the various coffee shops around Birmingham (read my findings here) but working in a coffee shop 5 days a week…

In response to this dataviz challenge, I decided to have a play with this really interesting dataset of meteors. Undecided whether I’m going to enter the challenge or not, as I certainly wouldn’t enter this video – but it’s an…