When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. At Interactive Things, we have a set of preferred libr...
Over the last few months we’ve been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. Based on the premise that the mobile phone has become the center of our everyday com...
We recently attended an interdisciplinary visualization workshop that was all about creating a dialogue between scientists, technologists and designers. It was interesting to discuss the different wa...
I just left the Stamen studio where I had a brief chat with founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck. He enthusiastically showed me their newest work: maps.stamen.com. As part of the CityTracking project, the ...
Shan Carter‘s latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama’s 2013 federal budget proposal. The $3.7 trillion in spending can be analyzed by type of spending, ...
Over the past years we have experienced an increased understanding for the importance of open data. We’ve seen governments, non-governmental organizations and even private and public companies ...
Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books. He developed an application that loads recommendations for a giv...
Another big event in 2012 has just been announced: Resonate New Media Festival . On March 16-17 20 speakers from Europe, Asia and North America will come present at the Dom Omladine in Belgrade, Serb...
In a recent chat with Jérôme Cukier about the state of visualization related literature, he mentioned Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky’s new book “Designing Data Visualizations” publi...
Students from the greater Berlin area gathered together on Saturday morning around 10am prepared to design and code away for the next 24 hours. The team behind Visualizing.org didn’t leave any ...
I am super hyped to introduce our pet project of this summer, called Substratum. It’s a series of inspirational interviews with some of today’s most influential designers and artists. 10 questi...
Jer Thorp, Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times and creative coder extraordinaire, explains the process behind his latest piece for Popular Science in a recent article. The task at hand was...
After a lot has been discussed about Swiss open data at the opendata.ch Conference in June, Hannes Gassert, Oleg Lavrovsky, and I felt the time was ripe to bring designers, developers and ideators to...
In case you don’t have the luck to be in New York around this time, but want to get a glimpse at what’s happening at the Strata Conference listen up: O’Reilly kindly provides live b...
The shooting of Mark Duggan on August 4th sparked a series of riots first in Tottenham then across England. The Guardian let you follow their spread on an interactive timeline that shows the most imp...
The folks over at Google Chrome have teamed up with Hyperakt and Vizzuality to put together the 2011 version of the Evolution of the Web visualization. It’s an interactive timeline that shows ...
For this year’s Video Music Awards, MTV looked again at the San Francisco based design studio Stamen to help them visualize what’s happening on Twitter during this major entertainment eve...
Milan based advertising and graphic design studio H-57 has put together a series of posters that use pictograms to tell biographies of more or less real and more or less important personalities. Don&...
SXSW 2012 will be the place to preview of what is unfolding in the world of creative technology and we thought it would be great to inject some visualization goodness into the mix. That’s why w...
After last year’s successful 24-hour data visualization marathon, Visualizing teams up again with GE to bring the Visualizing Marathon 2011 to five cities around the world: Sydney, New York, Sã...
Yesterday Visualizing.org launched version 1.0 of their Visualizing Player, a media player designed specifically for embedding and displaying infographics and data visualizations.Perhaps its best fea...
The Berlin-based design studio Golden Section Graphics recently released their second edition of In Graphics. The magazine is published twice per year as a bilingual edition in English and German. Th...
Joe Golike and Sha Hwang of Trulia take a deeper look at when crime typically happens throughout the day in 25 big cities across the United States. The result, When does crime happen? is a set of int...
Introduction We were asked by the National Geographic Channel to visualize the history of the National Geographic Bee Contest. They provided us with a dataset containing detailed information about th...
Did you know that noise complaints are the no. 1 quality-of-life issue for city residents? The folks over at Movity.com, before being acquired by Trulia, decided to tackle this issue as a first step ...
My colleague Benjamin and I spent the last week at the Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis and were blown away by the inspiring and creative atmosphere and the many, many talented and fun people we had the ...
On June 24th 2011, the opendata.ch 2011 Conference took place at the Swiss Federal Archives in Berne. Over 150 people from politics, journalism, science and technology gathered to hear about and disc...
Power and potential of data visualization with an european perspective was the core topic of Visualizing Europe, a one-day conference organized by Visualizing.org, Information Aesthetics and the Open...
Peoplemovin, an experimental project in data visualization by Carlo Zapponi, that shows the flows of 215,738,321 migrants as of 2010. The migration data provided by The World Bank is plotted as a flo...
UN Global Pulse, an initiative by the United Nations and Visualizing.org have teamed up to challenge you to visualize the voices of vulnerable populations in times of global crisis. Based on survey r...
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