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