Inspiration Impuls: Portraits of the Sun
The GE Show is back with more science-based beauty. This time exploring the power of the sun and how people are turning the world's oldest energy source, into its newest one. Read more
Review of the SEE#6 Conference
Once again, the good folks of Scholz & Volkmer under the direction of Michael Volkmer achieved to impress me with a well-organized and super inspirational conference. A great list of speakers that complemented each other well, a beautiful venue that held over 900 happy participants and a sound program made this year's see a great success. Read more
Skype Statistics
How does the communication within a creative team look like? Berlin based design studio onformative analyzed their Skype log files and summarized their findings in this poster. Read more
Inspiration Impuls: Complexity Graphics
Tatiana Plakhova is a Moscow based designer and the art director at Moscollective design studio. Her art is deeply inspired by complex patterns found in fractals or biological organisms. Read more
Join Us at the SEE#6 Conference
I am happy to announce that together with my friends Andrew Vande Moere and Moritz Stefaner, we are organizing a little side event to the see conference on Sunday April 10. We call it see+. Read more
Remixing Rosling
For an article about Sweden's most famous statistician Hans Rosling in Google's "Think Quarterly" Magazine, Moritz Stefaner has remixed two of the famous Gapminder bubble graphics. Read more
From Japan — Urgent Request for Information
The Institute for Information Design Japan asks for your help to collect and/or produce visualizations that could help the people in Japan in understanding and assessing what is going on, providing references for personal judgments. Read more
11 Conferences to attend in 2011
We've compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2011. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you're lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a chat. Read more
Visual Notes of our SXSW Panel
I was thrilled, when I heard that Ogilvy Notes has selected our panel, Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World's Conversation, to be recorded using visual notes. Here's a visual insight into the content of our session. Read more
Seattle Band Map
The Seattle Band Map is a project that showcases the Pacific Northwest's vibrant music scene by documenting the thousands of bands who have performed and recorded throughout the decades. Read more
Visualizing the Egyptian Revolution
Two visualizations strive to shed light upon the Egyptian uprising that began on 25 January 2011 and demanded the overthrow of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. While they take a different view, both pair the happenings with the reactions of people on the web. Read more
Speaking at SXSW 2011
I am very excited — no, I am thrilled to be speaking at this year's SXSW Interactive! Invited by the good folks at JESS3, I will join Adam Bly of Visualizing.org, Eric Friedman of Foursquare and our moderator Robin Richards on the panel entitled Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World's Conversations. 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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