Tech Know: Data visualisation brings train and tubes to life

Understanding the world around us through statistics can prove a daunting task.

Bus routes, hire cycle use and train travel could all be improved with the correct analysis of the ways they work.

A new movement of people using data visualisation techniques is producing inventive ways of showing graphically how public services behave.

Ellie Gibson has found out there is much more to the technique than simply making a bar chart pretty.