Review of the SEE#8 Conference
For this year’s SEE#8 conference we headed off to Wiesbaden’s Schlachthof. Let us reflect a bit on the things we learned. Read more
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How We Visualized Life After Fukushima
In this post we share our experience creating an interactive feature in close collaboration with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. During two intense weeks we combined best practices from information design with data-driven journalism and personal storytelling. Read more
13 Conferences to attend in 2013
We've compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2013. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you're lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a chat. Read more
Analyzing Presidential Candidate’s Body Language
The New York Times recently examined the body language of the US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Read more
How We Visualized 112 Years of Olympic Games
After reading about the visualizing.org challenge to create an interactive visualization for the Olympic Summer Games, our current intern Christian Gross accepted the challenge and took it upon himself to create a visualization. In this post you can read about his experiences while working on the challenge, what obstacles he had to overcome and what he has learned by doing so. Read more
The Champions Ring
Deroy Peraza from Hyperakt has published a huge collection of sports championships visualizations using radial brackets. Read more
Turn Your Location Into Jewelry With Meshu
Meshu is a way to turn location data into physical objects. Simply map a series of places and the fine folks behind the application turn that into a beautiful piece of custom jewelry. Read more
A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools
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. To help you get started, we have put together a selection of the tools we use the most and that we enjoy working with. Read more
How We Visualized the Vividness of Geneva
Over the last few months we've been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. In this post I want to show you our attempt to reveal the vividness of a city with a bunch of numbers and to bring a dataset to life. Read more
Pathline: Connecting Designers With Scientists
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 ways in which these groups think about visualization and how they use it for different purposes. Very bluntly put, each group lacks something another group knows and cares deeply [...] Read more
New Maps for the Web by Stamen
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. Read more
