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Collecting Data for a Happy Life?

Collecting Data for a Happy Life?

What would it mean when an electronic device knows more about your partners state than you do? Or can predict an incoming bout of misery through statistical analysis of accumulated data? When can technology become too invasive? Read more

Sound Mapping in New York City

Sound Mapping in New York City

New York Mapping by Mark Edward Campos investigates the context around a site. It helps to understand the goings on, in a 24-hour timeframe of an area in New York City. Read more

Polymaps

Polymaps

Polymaps is a free, open-source JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps. It is the result of a collaboration between Stamen Design and SimpleGeo. Read more

How We Visualized America’s Food and Drink Spending

How We Visualized America’s Food and Drink Spending

Recently we had the chance to meet the people from the Bundle headquarter, to dive into a bunch of interesting data about food and drink spending in America and to develop an exciting infographic. Now we would like to let you take a glimpse behind the scenes. Read more

Visualizing The Health Care Reform

Visualizing The Health Care Reform

With our recently introduced category, Datavisualization.ch Inside, we want to start a conversation around the processes and tools that information designers use. Following our introductory post, we're happy to present you the first guest post in this category by our community member Marco Giannini. The work he presents here received a "best design" award in the GOOD Magazine competition. Read more

Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?

Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?

On August 24th the one-day conference Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn? will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The roundtable, organized by the European Journalism Centre brings together specialists in fields which intersect with data-driven journalism. Read more

How Do You Visualize Progress?

How Do You Visualize Progress?

Fernanda Cozzi, a graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina strived to analyze and display her professional achievements during her studies. The result is a set of analytical schemes of concepts and projects developed in college. Read more

Pulse of the Nation

Pulse of the Nation

Researchers from the Northeastern University and Harvard University have released the findings of a study about the mood on Twitter over time. So, how does the mood of the United States change during one day? Read more

Unsung Heroes of Tour de France

Unsung Heroes of Tour de France

Mikkel Koser, Interaction Designer at okdeluxe dedicates a visualization to the unsung heroes of the Tour de France 2010. The application helps understand the race dynamics of all the riders who are not heavily covered by media, and who are, in a sense, only there to support the big names. Read more

Dribbble Explained

Dribbble Explained

Do you know Dribbble? No, not the verb "to dribble" with a typo, but a nifty content sharing site for creatives who show and tell in 120,000 pixels or less. If you're unfamiliar with it, here's how it works. Read more

2010 Tour De France Visualization

2010 Tour De France Visualization

After seeing a ton of great graphic work being done looking at the FIFA World Cup 2010, Jerome Daksiewicz realized that he had not seen any interesting graphic work visualizing the 2010 Tour de France, his personal major sporting event of choice. Read more

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