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
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
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
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
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
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
The Evolution of the Web
The folks over at Google Chrome have teamed up with Hyperakt and Vizzuality to put together the 2011 version of the Evolution of the Web visualization. Read more
2011 MTV #VMA Twitter Tracker
For this year's Video Music Awards, MTV looked again at the San Francisco based design studio Stamen to help them visualize what's happening on Twitter during this major entertainment event. Read more
Inspirational Infographics Roundup H-57
Milan based advertising and graphic design studio H-57 has put together a series of posters that use pictograms to tell biographies of more or less real and more or less important personalities. 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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