21 May 2010 Showcases Energy, Environmental

The United States is the 7th largest per capita consumer of residential energy, but where is all of that energy going? For GE, Lisa Strausfeld and her team have designed an easy to understand visualization that calculates energy use of home appliances. Read more
19 May 2010 Showcases Crowdsourcing, Environmental

From the MIT senseable city lab comes another superb concept. Under the direction of Carlo Ratti, the team behind the Copenhagen Wheel tries to mix crowd sourced data collection with personal data analysis. Read more
27 Jan 2010 Showcases Economics, Environmental, Financial, Politics, Social

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland will take place this weekend from January 27th to 31st. To examine some of the most important topics in advance the WEF website hosts the interactive application Risks Interconnection Map 2010. The RIM 2010 is a network visualization weighting the most important global risks and their connections. Read more
09 Dec 2009 Datasets, Showcases BubbleChart, Environmental, Politics

Simon Rogers from the Guardian Data Blog takes a look at the latest (2007) figures about carbon emissions per country. China seems to take over the lead followed by the USA. Read more
11 Aug 2009 Showcases 3D, Environmental, Science

BELLA GAIA is an immersive theater experience created and performed by Kenji Williams. The project is realized in collaboration with the NASA and strives to engage and delight the audience with the beauty of our earth. Read more
05 Aug 2009 Showcases 3D, Audio, Environmental, Mapping

Cascade on Wheels is a project by Steph Thirion, and was initially developed during the 2007 Visualizar workshop at the Medialab Prado in Madrid. "How high or how loud is the average quantity of cars passing by?" Sounds like a queer question? Read on to know how Steph would answer it. Read more
09 Jul 2009 Showcases Environmental

Ian Carr from http://www.iancarr.net has created a set of visualization as part of a study about the noise levels around the area of Heathrow Airport. Read more
24 Feb 2009 Notes Environmental, GoogleEarth, Mapping
Simon Ilyushchenko from the Google Lat Long team posted an article on how he created a visualization by mapping CO2 emissions and a detailed explanation about the composite. Read more