Member Bio
Real World Visuals is a data visualisation / communications agency that specialises in helping ‘downstream’ audiences make sense of environmental challenges, though our approach is applicable to a wide range of data from economics to epidemiology.
We recognise that the communication needs of the community of scientists that owns or generates the data are different from other audiences such as scientists from other fields, policy makers, politicians, and more general publics. We help such ‘downstream’ audiences engage intuitively with quantitative information. We have pioneered many visualisation techniques and applied them in a wide range of different contexts.
The founders of Real World Visuals are Adam Nieman and Antony Turner. Adam has a degree in physics and a PhD in the visual culture of science. He is also an artist who specialises in science-based art and has been working in science communication and data visualisation for nearly 20 years. Antony started an agency called Carbon Sense, which pioneered corporate climate communication – getting climate change to the top of the agenda at board level and supporting change towards carbon aware policies throughout organisations.
We are a small outfit based in Bristol, but we have significant in-house capabilities and powerful equipment (computers and software). We also have good working relationships with a range external partners including animators, designers, programmers, and composers. The company was incorporated in November 2015, but we were trading before that with a different company – Carbon Visuals – which was incorporated in July 2009.
Key People
Adam Nieman
Adam has a degree in physics and a PhD in the visual culture of science. He is also an artist who specialises in science-based art and has been working in science communication and data visualisation for nearly 20 years.