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
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
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
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
Shan Carter's latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama's 2013 federal budget proposal. Read more
Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives. Read more
Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books. Read more
Another big event in 2012 has just been announced: Resonate New Media Festival combines talks, workshops, panel discussions by concerts, DJ sets and performances with some of the leading digital artists. Read more
Here's how a rookie experienced his first introduction to visualization from Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky's new book Designing Data Visualizations. What he learned and how this helps him to move forward. Read more
Students from the greater Berlin area gathered together last Saturday well prepared to design and code away for the coming 24 hours. Let's have a look back what went down. Read more
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 questions per interview, 2 interviews per issue, 1 issue per week until Christmas! Read more
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. Read more
