Following a previous post covering Visualizations for the FIFA World Cup 2010, I've been asked to share some thoughts for an article by Jeremy Wagstaff for the Jakarta Post and the BBC Wold Service. As I'd love to hear your feedback, I decided to post the interview here and invite you to join the conversation. Read more
As some of you may have noticed it's been a bit less busy here over the past days. But don't worry, we haven't been burried under piles of snow in the Swiss alps (which would have been quite probable) nor did we enjoy too much Cheese Fondue (which would have been even more probable). Actually, we've been very busy with the work on the refined version of Datavisualization.ch that you're experiencing as you read these lines. I am very excited about the outcome and would like to guide you through it in more detail. Read more
Did you stumble upon this website because of the browser history of your roommate or did you follow one of the many links your girlfriends constantly send over Twitter? Consider yourself happy then because: I've got some of the best christmas gifts for before mentioned person. (Also, if you want to tell your friends about some gifts you, as a desperate infographic or data art fiend, would really appreciate) Read more
For any aspiring developer the possibility to view source is one of the most important catalyst for mastering a new language. Jer Thorp from blprnt.com has decided to share the source code of some of his latest and greatest projects. Read more
In the tradition of FollowFriday on Twitter and in response of Randy Krum’s post listing 37 people you should follow for infographics on Twitter I thought it would be nice to extend this list with some of my favourite Twitter users in the field of data visualization. Read more
I took my struggle to read a stereotypical 3D Pie Chart as inspiration for a quick redesign of the chart. Take it as a small case study on how we can improve readability by reducing visual clutter. Read more
John Maeda, President of RISD and former Director of the Media Lab at MIT takes a look back at the evolution of Processing. He tells the story of Casey Reas and Ben Fry and their efforts for both, the scripting language and the community around Processing.org. Read more
Mark Sinclair from Creative Review interviewed Ben Fry, co-creator of Processing and Director at Seed Visualization. Fry answers questions about his learnings from the MIT, his working process when visualizing data, the Processing scripting language and the importance of understandable data in the future. Read more
As part of the ongoing series "An American Summer" from The French Creative Connection, Thibaut Estellon has interviewed Paul Kahn, information archtitect extraordinary. Read more
Catherine from visualizingeconomics.com has written an interesting article about the roles in data visualization. The posts right here are my thoughts about the diagram she created and how I would alter the stages in the process. Read more
A common conception is that data visualizations should be understandable by everyone because – in contrast to a multi-page scientific text – it is their purpose to be easily readable. Our contributing author Peter believes that this may be an unnecessary restriction we put on ourselves. Read more
Nathan from FlowingData.com addresses the issue between visual aesthetics and precision in data visualizations. The discussion was ignited by the post “Better late than never” and the following comments. Nathan stands up for finding new methods to visualize data and by doing this he speaks from the bottom of my heart. Read source on FlowingData.com Read more
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