Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives. Read more
Here's how a rookie experienced his first introduction to visualization from Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky's new book Designing Data Visualizations. What he learned and how this helps him to move forward. 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
Linked Open Data shows a lot of promise for visualization creators. This article introduces some core concepts and terminology. 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
In a friendly and informal style, Andrew Glassner lets the reader peek over his shoulder to learn how to program from the ground up to create expressive images and interactive art. Read more
Tracy Boyer of Innovative Interactivity has published an Interview with Mirko Lorenz about the Data driven journalism roundtable that took place in Amsterdam on August 24th. Lorenz is journalist / information architect for Deutsche Welle and organizer for the European Journalism Centre, initiator of the conference. 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
Thoughts, opinions and ideas about data visualization nourish the discussion and may ultimately lead to a better general understanding. We invite you to participate in the discussion and express your opinion in the comments.
