This year's Visualizar workshop by the Medialab Prado comes with a very intruiging tagline: Public Data, Data in Public. Accordingly the focus areas are Free Data for Better Science, Open data for a transparent government and Data for Public Debate. Read more
The video capture of Aaron Koblin's presentation at CaT has been published on Creativity-Online.com. Aaron, who's currently working at Google's Creative Lab shows some of his latest projects including Flight Patterns, NYTE, TheSheepMarket.com and his work on the Radiohead video clip "House Of Cards". Read more
Étapes has published a comprehensive video interview with Aaron Koblin. In the interview he talks about his interest in generative art and information visualization as a way to display cultural tendencies and models emerging today. Read more
The sessions from the From Business to Buttons conference in Malmö are made accessible as videos online. Matt Jones from Dopplr.com talks about Persuasive Personal Information and the approach he takes designing the Personal Annual Report on Dopplr.com. Read more
The OECD and the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), based in Vienna, are organising an international conference in Paris, on 18-20 June 2009, about data visualization and information design Read more
The SEE#4 conference on April 18th was a very inspirational event. With a superb set of speakers and an extraordinary keynote by leading brain researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth the quality of content was very high and the range broad enough to give each speaker his space. Read more
The are a few conferences out there you wouldn't miss if you're involved in data visualization. The following ones are certainly must-see conferences if you have the chance to get there. Read more
Christian Chabot is the founder and CEO of Tableau Software. In this talk he shares a huge amount of experience in the commercial field of data visualization. His talk is clearly focused on the Tableau Software but he covers a lot of topics with an incredible depth and expertise. Read more
"see" is back again, driven by last year's success and the extensive positive feedback the organisators received. In 2009 the see conference will again bring together fields like design, art, new media and architecture. Read more
Eric Rodebeck from Stamen Design gives an inspiring talk at LIFT Asia about rich data visualization on the Web. Stamen ist a design agency specialized in the visualization of dataflows either from the Web or from real-world data.In his talk, he demonstrates how the Web can be enriched by visualization opportunities and presents various examples along this line of research. Read more
Data visualization is still a niche and thus networking a crucial part of the daily work. Events are great to stay up-to-date with current developments as well as meeting peers and cultivate connections.
