In this post we share our experience creating an interactive feature in close collaboration with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. During two intense weeks we combined best practices from information design with data-driven journalism and personal storytelling. Read more
After reading about the visualizing.org challenge to create an interactive visualization for the Olympic Summer Games, our current intern Christian Gross accepted the challenge and took it upon himself to create a visualization. In this post you can read about his experiences while working on the challenge, what obstacles he had to overcome and what he has learned by doing so. Read more
Over the last few months we've been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. In this post I want to show you our attempt to reveal the vividness of a city with a bunch of numbers and to bring a dataset to life. Read more
We created an interactive visualization of the National Geographic Bee Contest's history. Here we talk about finding the right story, design decisions, and the dirty work of getting data into a usable form. Read more
In this Inside post you can learn how we supported the Zurich International School in cultivating their mission statement and make sure they stick to it. Read more
This is a guest post by Mike Tully, designer and student at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In this Datavisualization.ch Inside article he describes the creation process behind his first information visualization project called "The Weather of Well Being". Read more
As you may have read in an earlier post, our team at Interactive Things has been supporting Democracy International with their Election Observation Mission to Afghanistan 2010 by providing visualizations of up to date election data. In this Inside post we tell you the full story of this exciting time-critical collaboration. Read more
Recently we had the chance to meet the people from the Bundle headquarter, to dive into a bunch of interesting data about food and drink spending in America and to develop an exciting infographic. Now we would like to let you take a glimpse behind the scenes. Read more
With our recently introduced category, Datavisualization.ch Inside, we want to start a conversation around the processes and tools that information designers use. Following our introductory post, we're happy to present you the first guest post in this category by our community member Marco Giannini. The work he presents here received a "best design" award in the GOOD Magazine competition. Read more
Did you ever wonder how an infographic is originated or if your own approach differs from others? We would like to share the development process of our latest work for FreshBooks. Read more
Did you ever wonder how a data visualization is originated or if your own approach differs from others? We look behind the scenes of interesting data visualization projects and present their development processes, from the very beginning to the final product.
