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Google Public Data Explorer

Google Public Data Explorer

On its trail to organize the world’s information, Google has just added a new experimental product to their Lab. The Public Data Explorer makes “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”. It is designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. Read more

Relationship Matters

Relationship Matters

Valentina Defilippo has published her studies of social network structures and the nature of the connections between nodes. Through five case studies she strived to investigate various ways of representing the links between nodes in her personal social network, focusing on various aspects of the relationships: time, affections, space, conversations, emotions. Read more

Inspirational Infographic Roundup 2

Inspirational Infographic Roundup 2

We've had two great months with the WeLoveDatavis Tumblr to start the year 2010 and to give you a small recap here are some of the sweetest Infographics that can be found over there. Read more

Smart Animation for IBM Smarter Planet

Smart Animation for IBM Smarter Planet

With graphical cleverness resembling the early posters by Paul Rand, IBM has produced a series of short animated infographics explaining the ideas behind their Smarter Planet initiative. The distinct look and the simplicity make the microsite a joyful visit. Read more

Datavisualization.ch 2.0

Datavisualization.ch 2.0

As some of you may have noticed it's been a bit less busy here over the past days. But don't worry, we haven't been burried under piles of snow in the Swiss alps (which would have been quite probable) nor did we enjoy too much Cheese Fondue (which would have been even more probable). Actually, we've been very busy with the work on the refined version of Datavisualization.ch that you're experiencing as you read these lines. I am very excited about the outcome and would like to guide you through it in more detail. Read more

Mathematical Functions in Our Environment

Mathematical Functions in Our Environment

I’ve come across this excellent series of visualizations by Nikki Graziano, photography & mathematics student at R.I.T. The captured shapes and structures in the images are explained by mathematical equations both visually and numerically.NikkiGraziano.com Read more

Everyone Ever in the World

Everyone Ever in the World

Everyone Ever in the World is a new poster by The Luxury of Protest available at Counter-Objects.The infromation is party printed with semi-transparent ink and partly cut right out of the material. Read more

Publish Your Visualized Data With Tableau Public

Publish Your Visualized Data With Tableau Public

Tableau Software today launched a new product that brings public data to life on the web. Tableau Public lets anyone who posts content to the web easily create interactive visualizations and publish them online.How it works Tableau Public is a freely available desktop application and can be downloaded from the Tableau.com website. The data can be [...] Read more

Stadtistik — How does Urban Life in Germany Compare?

Stadtistik — How does Urban Life in Germany Compare?

Martin Oberhäuser from Mutabor Design has published his diploma thesis Stadtistik and it's definitely worth a look! Solid typography, simple visuals and clean charts — just how we like it. Read more

Sumedicina — A Data Fiction

Sumedicina — A Data Fiction

Jana Lange and Kim Asendorf explore the possibilities of telling fictional stories in a completely new way. Instead of printing the story word by word they let the user discover the storyline within a set of data visualizations. Did I mention how delightful these visuals are designed? Read more

Some Tweaking Behind The Curtain

We’re working a bit on our server and installation to improve performance and reliability. Hopefully you won’t encounter any inconvenience, but if you do so, be assured we’ll be back in a few hours. Thanks for your patience and I hope you’ll be happy with our improvements. Update: We have migrated the site to our new [...] Read more

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