13.Apr 2010 Tools Application

Together with Kim Rees from Periscopic I have reviewed the social data visualization application Swivel. Swivel is a simple to use web application that lets you visualize public or private data sets and collaborate openly or in closed user groups. Read more
21.Jul 2009 Tools Application, Geo, Google, Mapping

What do you do if you have a dataset, say an Excel file and you need to map that data. Maybe you plan to do a ModestMaps application but the data doesn't have any geolocations. Let's see how you could go about the problem and how you can use a new application called Mapspread for this purpose. Read more
28.Feb 2009 Notes, Opinions Application, Tableau
Tableau’s blog recently featured an analysis of the graphics on Recovery.org. They’ve come up with some serious improvements using their data visualization software “Tableau“. Read more about the nalysis and the proposed improvements on the original blogpost. Read more
18.Feb 2009 Notes, Tools Application, Technology
Lisa Spiro from DiRT created a excellent list of 18 tools to visualize data. Read more
11.Feb 2009 Events Application, Keynote, Tableau, Video

Christian Chabot is the founder and CEO of Tableau Software. In this talk he shares a huge amount of experience in the commercial field of data visualization. His talk is clearly focused on the Tableau Software but he covers a lot of topics with an incredible depth and expertise. Read more
02.Feb 2009 Showcases Application, Mapping

UUorld (pronounced "world") is a data mapping environment consisting of a mapping application, huge amount of quality statistical data and great exporting features. The goal of UUorld is to make understanding geographical data intuitive and immersive. Read more
28.Jan 2009 Showcases Application, Biology, Processing, Video

Ilya Grigorik from igvita.com has created a visualization of the usage of GitHub. He used code_swarm to show the organic growth of a software developement process. Read more
09.Jan 2009 Showcases Application, Color

Adobe just rolled out a new feature over at Kuler. Pulse is a tool to visualize the colors used on Kuler related to country, season and tag. The color set can be scale in regard on granularity as well as the lighness of the colors. Read more