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A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools

A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools 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

New Maps for the Web by Stamen

New Maps for the Web by Stamen 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

Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal

Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal

Shan Carter's latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama's 2013 federal budget proposal. Read more

Words of Appreciation for Open Knowledge Foundation

Words of Appreciation for Open Knowledge Foundation Words of Appreciation for Open Knowledge Foundation

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

A Thousand Milieus

A Thousand Milieus A Thousand Milieus

Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books. Read more

Resonate 2012

Resonate 2012 Resonate 2012

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

Review: Designing Data Visualizations

Review: Designing Data Visualizations Review: Designing Data Visualizations

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

Review of the Visualizing Marathon Berlin 2011

Review of the Visualizing Marathon Berlin 2011 Review of the Visualizing Marathon Berlin 2011

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

Substratum — A Series of Inspirational Interviews

Substratum — A Series of Inspirational Interviews Substratum — A Series of Inspirational Interviews

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

Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine

Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine Visualizing 138 Years of Popular Science Magazine

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

Strata 2011 Live Video Stream

Strata 2011 Live Video Stream Strata 2011 Live Video Stream

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 broadcasts from keynotes, talks and workshops. Read more

Riots in England

Riots in England Riots in England

The Guardian let you follow the spread of the recent riots in England on an interactive timeline that shows the most important incidents and how they spread over the different neighborhoods. Read more

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Benjamin Wiederkehr

BA in Interaction Design, passionate perfectionists, web enthusiast & coffee lover. Founder & editor in chief of Datavisualization.ch

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