07 May 2012
Tools
Flash, JavaScript, Processing, R
When I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. To help you get started, we have put together a selection of the tools we use the most and that we enjoy working with.
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25 Apr 2012
Inside
Interactive Things, JavaScript, Processing
Over the last few months we've been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. In this post I want to show you our attempt to reveal the vividness of a city with a bunch of numbers and to bring a dataset to life.
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17 Jan 2012
Showcases
Gephi, Network, Processing
Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books.
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26 Oct 2011
Showcases
Process, Processing, Tutorial
Jer Thorp, Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times and creative coder extraordinaire, explains the process behind his latest piece for Popular Science.
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19 May 2011
Showcases
Economics, Politics, Processing
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.
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06 Oct 2010
Opinions
Book, Processing, Review
In a friendly and informal style, Andrew Glassner lets the reader peek over his shoulder to learn how to program from the ground up to create expressive images and interactive art.
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26 Jul 2010
Showcases
Processing, Sports
Mikkel Koser, Interaction Designer at okdeluxe dedicates a visualization to the unsung heroes of the Tour de France 2010. The application helps understand the race dynamics of all the riders who are not heavily covered by media, and who are, in a sense, only there to support the big names.
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22 Mar 2010
Showcases
Advertising, Animation, Processing
James Frost, director of the popular music video clip "House Of cards" by Radiohead was approached by Ogilvy & Mather NY to direct the new spot for the IBM Smarter Planet campaign. The result is is a stunning journey through an invironment of raw data.
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24 Nov 2009
Showcases
Pie Chart, Processing
GE worked together with Seed Visualization under the direction of Ben Fry on a way to visualize the cost of health. The outcome is simple and easy to use, but is it eloquent enough to show the facts as intended?
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12 Nov 2009
Showcases
Network, Politics, Processing, Social
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.
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19 Oct 2009
Showcases
Processing, Tactile
Mitchell Whitelaw from The Teeming Void has created a unique piece of wearable. The 3D bracelet visualizes one year of the weather data in Canberra.
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28 Sep 2009
Notes
Interview, Processing
Rhizome.org published an interview with Casey Reas and Ben Fry about the past, present and future of Processing. Even if you are already familiar with the history of this great programming environment there are probably some nice background informations in there for you. Via Daniel Shiffman
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