On June 24th 2011, the opendata.ch 2011 Conference took place at the Swiss Federal Archives in Berne. Over 150 people from politics, journalism, science and technology gathered to hear about and discuss Switzerland's future on the Open Government Data front. Read more
Jan Willem Tulp, a freelance information visualizer based in The Netherlands has recently published his submission for the Eyeo data visualization challenge by Visualizing.org that analyzes the numbers of homes in proportion to the population in the USA. Read more
Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. Here's how media outlets strive to make the data more accessible than its original form. Read more
The Visual History of the American Presidency is a new poster by Nathaniel Pearlman of Timeplots, displaying the progress and development of the U.S. executive over time. Read more
On its trail to organize the world’s information, Google has just added a new experimental product to their Lab. The Public Data Explorer makes “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”. It is designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. Read more
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
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing people to check out the numbers for themselves. Now The Guardian has created one single interface to rule them all. Read more
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
Congress Tweets is a project by Andrea Bradshaw and Laura Simpson at the collaboration studio "Data Visualization As Generative Narrative" at Parsons University. They examine possible correlations between activity on Twitter and political activity in general. Read more
Walter Rafelsberger has created an interesting and playful Twitter visualization over at Metaportal der Medienpolemik. He combined a timelined visualization with spring-like animation of related Tweets. The overall visual design may be rather bare-bones but the animation creates a hypnotizing effect. Read more
A new interactive application from the Wall Street Journal provides an historical view into the national unemployment rate since 1948. Provided with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the application does a nice job in immediate insight. Read more
Since 1990 the United Nations Development Programme publishes an annual report called the Human Development Report exploring challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change. This year’s topic is migration and the UNDP has recruited the New York based design studio Zago which originated from Basel, Switzerland to lead the design. Read more
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