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
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
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
Data and Cities Conference
As part of their project City Tracking, Stamen is hosting an invitation-only conference on Data Visualization and Cities on February 9-11, 2011, in their offices in San Francisco. Read more
Our Picks for O’Reilly Strata 2011
On February 01 – 03 2011 O'Reilly is hosting the Strata Conference, an event dedicated to data and how to make it work for your business. I have listed some of the conference highlights for visualization aficiandos so you don't get lost in the extensive schedule. Read more
Eyeo Festival
The Eyeo Festival brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow. The three day long event features talks, labs and demos by extraordinary speakers in a beautiful location. Read more
Hans Rosling at TEDxChange
Hans Rosling, director of the Gapminder Foundation gives another of his enthusiastic talks about how statistics can help us to better understand the world's development. Read more
Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?
On August 24th the one-day conference Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn? will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The roundtable, organized by the European Journalism Centre brings together specialists in fields which intersect with data-driven journalism. Read more
Using Visualization to Understand Social Networks
We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis uses network visualizations to show how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know. Read more
Live from SEE#5
You did not make it to this years SEE Conference in Wiesbaden? No need to worry: while we enjoy the presentations from Nicholas Felton, Kent Demain, Andrew Vande Moere and others, we are busy documenting what's happening live via Twitter and you get instant updates here on Datavisualization.ch. Read more
Come to the Datavis Tweetup!
Join the good folks from Datavisualization.ch at SEE#5 for a chat & cold beer! We hope to finally meet some of our readers finally in person. Read more
Design for America
Sunlight Labs, a part of the Sunlight Foundation, recently announced their "Design for America" competition. It aims to connect the talents of art and design communities to the wealth of government data and to help nurture the field of information visualization. Read more
Events
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.
