Design

I want to share some impressive work I’ve recently come across from a Toronto-based project/group called Bio.Diaspora. Last week the team was featured in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal as part of a special report on Mass Gatherings and Health. The report focused specifically on the potential health risks posed by the mass gathering and […]

Just come across a really interesting interactive project from Estonian Professor, Tanel Tammet, called ‘Sightsmap‘ which overlays a heatmap onto a Google map platform allowing users to pan and zoom around the globe to see the locations where the most intensely photographed areas in the world. The heatmap is a representation of the number of available Panoramio photos for

My first post of 2012 should be considered slightly off-topic but I thought it was still worthy of a share as an example of visual explanation. I really like the idea behind the new “50p Sports Collection” released by the Royal Mint to commemorate the 2012 London Olympics. A competition was run to invite special

For those of you interested in network visualisations I strongly recommend you have a look at Hive Plots. This is a site set up to publish the findings and technical solutions from research by Martin Krzywinski (et al) from the Genome Sciences Center, Vancouver. The project’s tag line “Rational Network Visualization – Farewell to Hairballs”,

The Creative Review blog reports on a new poster show (‘Painting by Numbers‘) for early 2012 at the London Transport Museum which will be exhibiting some vintage data visualisations from the 1930s onwards. The works relate to a number of designs which were used to present the quality and benefits of using London’s public transport.

I spend most of my browsing life in Google Chrome these days and I’m a less angry more satisfied person because of it. But only today have I ever never noticed this handy little built-in visualisation feature. When you run a ‘find’ operation for a given term, the vertical scroll bar highlights shows you where,

After the November release of ITO World’s road casualty mapping service for GB and the US (the launch being timed for the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims), the BBC website is also running a special feature this week around road traffic accidents and is showcasing a number of visualisation pieces, some more

With just a month before Christmas, the pressures of present shopping are slowly increasing as each day passes. For those of you data-heads with a particular penchant for influential German electronic pop-meisters Kraftwerk, you may be interested in the latest project from London-based ‘Data Illustrator’ Stefanie Posavec – a glossy print showing the length of