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Visual Notes of our SXSW Panel

Visual Notes of our SXSW Panel Visual Notes of our SXSW Panel

I was thrilled, when I heard that Ogilvy Notes has selected our panel, Social Media Data Visualization: Mapping the World's Conversation, to be recorded using visual notes. Here's a visual insight into the content of our session. Read more

Seattle Band Map

Seattle Band Map Seattle Band Map

The Seattle Band Map is a project that showcases the Pacific Northwest's vibrant music scene by documenting the thousands of bands who have performed and recorded throughout the decades. Read more

Visualizing the Egyptian Revolution

Visualizing the Egyptian Revolution Visualizing the Egyptian Revolution

Two visualizations strive to shed light upon the Egyptian uprising that began on 25 January 2011 and demanded the overthrow of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. While they take a different view, both pair the happenings with the reactions of people on the web. Read more

Speaking at SXSW 2011

Speaking at SXSW 2011 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

Fizz, A Social Network Visualization

Fizz, A Social Network Visualization Fizz, A Social Network Visualization

Fizz is a social network visualization that provides a playful view on your own social graph and what's currently happening. It's one of the first two projects of the new visualization super group called Bloom. Read more

Visualizing The World’s Well-Being

Visualizing The World’s Well-Being Visualizing The World’s Well-Being

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

Working with Data in Protovis

Working with Data in Protovis Working with Data in Protovis

Protovis is an open-source visualization library by the Stanford Visualization Group and has become one of the preferred tools in our arsenal. If you want to get started with the popular toolkit too, Jerome Cukier has a comprehensive tutorial about how to work with data in Protovis. Read more

River Transit Maps

River Transit Maps River Transit Maps

Daniel Huffman gives us an alternative view on how to look at rivers: Using the analogy of urban transit maps, he achieves a high level of abstraction an thus gives a clear overview over relationships and hierarchies. Read more

Data and Cities Conference

Data and Cities Conference 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

Random Numbers Printed as Limited Editions

Random Numbers Printed as Limited Editions Random Numbers Printed as Limited Editions

Random Number Multiples debuts with two silk screened data visualizations by Jer Thorp and two abstract compositions by Marius Watz. Read more

The 50 Most Popular Typefaces in the World

The 50 Most Popular Typefaces in the World The 50 Most Popular Typefaces in the World

Shelby White shows us where today's 50 most popular typefaces originate. Read more

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