amfAR Annual Report
For their annual report the amfAR, the foundation for innovative AIDS Research published a world map displaying the breadth of their activities during 2008. Read more
Where do the 736 Players from WC 2010 work?
There are 32 national teams with a total of 736 players at the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. But, where do they actually work during the year? Read more
Visualizations at Facebook Developer Conference
f8, this year's Facebook Developer Conference was filled with new announcements. Beside the controversial unified open graph and the new social plugins there were a few things that caught my eye. Read more
The Big World Cup Visualization Roundup
The hard facts are given: A team has 11 players, the ball is round and a match takes 90 minutes. But what happens in between? We've compiled a list of applications and visualization that strive to provide insights into the FIFA World Cup 2010. Read more
9 Years of Sleep
Dominic Szablewski from PhobosLab has analyzed his sleeping pattern over the past 9 years. The data was collected "on the side" by mIRC, his IRC client of choice. Read more
Twitter as a Parade
KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier, launched a new Twitter related mashup called IS Parade. It's a fun little visualization of Twitter data that let's you create a virtual parade to celebrate your username or any other keyword. Read more
Bodycloud — Capturing Human Movements
Bodycloud is a project to materialize human motion by Raphael Perret, scientific assistant at the IAD program at ZHdK. Inspired by the motion of capoeirista, Perret produces 3D sculptures of courses of motions. Read more
Weather Tower
Wather Tower is an urban installation from the belgian Design Agency Lab[au]. It forecasts tomorrow's temperature, cloudiness, precipitations, and wind, by using colors and geometrical patterns to visualize/transcribe real-time data provided by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. Read more
Dokfest Forest Identity
FIELD, a design studio based in London, designed the new identity for the Documentary Film and Video Festival Kassel. The work Dokfest Forest is based on the festival’s film submission database and uses generative design method to create the key visuals. Read more
Ebb & Flow of Book Characters
How does importance of topics and characters change over the course of a narrative? Who is gaining prominence and who vanishes? Jeff Clark tries to answer these question with automatic text analysis and a StreamGraph visualization. Read more
Mapping Istanbul by Project Projects
I stumbled across this superb looking book called "Mapping Istanbul". It is the work of Project Projects in collaboration with Garanti Galerie and Superpool architects. The aim of the book is to visually capture the complex nature of the capital city of Turkey. Read more
A Big Bang called Twitter
From Information Architects comes the new Web Trend Map for 2010. This years version is called Cosmic 140 and it shows the most influential people o Twitter. 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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