Just wanted to quickly share this. I can’t believe I’ve managed to miss this site for so long but, thanks to a profile on the superb Graphic Sociology, I’ve finally discovered Bill Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ – a fascinating and inspirational collection of innovative map visualisation from his own portfolio and designs from a number of […]
Bill Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ Read More »
Last month I shared details of the WordPress 2011 ‘State of the Word’ – founder Matt Mullenweg’s annual overview of the headlines, facts and figures relating to the utilisation of the opensource web/blog tool. I also shared news that data from the first ever WordPress user and developer survey was being made available and designers
Visualisation of the WordPress User Survey Read More »
I’d just got comfortable and in place to watch the Sunday afternoon football on Sky Sports, looking forward to having a bit of mental breathing space from all things data visualisation, when up pops these two graphics… The first graph compares results of QPR vs Aston Villa matches at Loftus Road (QPR’s home ground) and
Distorted and misleading graphics on Sky Sports Read More »
Friend of the site Nadia Amoroso has asked me to share details with readers of a great opportunity to have your visualisation projects exhibited in a potential new book about cities as information-scapes.
Contribute your City-related designs or information-scapes to new book Read More »
You may recall about a year ago a new concept was launched for the BBC by design consultancy Berg in collaboration with Max Gadney. This project was called BBC Dimensions and aimed to explore new ways of using digital media to relate stories and facts from history and current affairs. Today, Berg announced details of the
Berg and BBC Dimensions launches ‘How Many Really?’ Read More »
In recent times we have seen a number of emerging projects which demonstrate the creative potential of the visual analysis of images and image data. Projects such as Cinemetrics, Movie Barcodes and the 365 Days of Light in Norway demonstrate what can be achieved when the characteristics of images are stretched, spliced, aggregated and transformed. Now
Introducing ImagePlot visualisation software Read More »
The Visualizing Marathon 2011 is a series of 24-hour data visualisation competitions being held in five cities around the world. The inaugural 2010 event was extremely successful and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be one of the jurors at the London Marathon on 12th and 13th November. I’m also very grateful for being invited join
Visualizing.org Marathon, London 2011 Read More »
Sense of Patterns is an impressive portfolio of work from Mahir M. Yavuz, a Creative Director and PhD candidate who appears to share his time between New York, Linz in Austria and Istanbul.
Sense of Patterns: New visualisation project from Mahir Yavuz Read More »
At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking articles I’ve come across during the previous month. Here’s the latest collection from August 2011
Best of the visualisation web… August 2011 Read More »
The latest fabulous project from the Moritz Stefaner visualisation factory came off the production line yesterday. In collaboration with Christopher Warnow, and other partners, the Max Planck Research Networks multi-touch installation represents the nature of connectivity across Max Planck Institutes and with international partners. It is now on display at the Max Planck Science Gallery
Max Planck Institutes and their connections visualised Read More »