Refresher Week Project (Part 1): The Dark Knight Rises

Compelling is the honest take on the challenging bits – getting and cleaning messy datasets, learning new visualisation techniques, balancing ambition and time, etc. If you like data work that involves creativity and tackling new techniques (e.g. sentiment analysis, chord diagrams), Mandy Wan’s account offers insight into process, as much as outcome. Even if you’re not a Batman fan, the structure of how she plans and executes the project has lessons for anyone building dashboards or analysing narrative‑driven data.